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Nepal's Communist PM takes power for fourth time

16 July 2024
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2024-07-16 10:02

Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli of Nepal has been sworn in as prime minister after his Communist Party formed a coalition government with the center-left Nepali Congress.

This coalition has shifted power in the country's often-volatile parliament. Oli, 72, the leader of the Communist Party of Nepal - Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML), the second-largest party in the parliament, returns as prime minister for the fourth time.

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