Oli, Dahal likely to take turns in leading goverment

Leaders of the left alliance have floated a proposal whereby CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli and CPN-Maoist Centre Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal would become the country’s prime minister on rotation.

The left alliance has secured comfortable majority to form the government, with the UML winning 120 seats and the CPN-MC securing 53 in the parliamentary elections that concluded on December 7. In the 275-member House of Representatives, 138 seats are required to form the government.

While Oli was elected to the Parliament from Jhapa, Dahal won from Chitwan.

According to the proposal, Oli would become the prime minister in the first phase, while Dahal would replace him in the second phase of the left alliance government’s five-year tenure.

Dahal has already announced publicly that Oli will be the country’s next premier.

UML Deputy General Secretary Ghanshyam Bhusal said Dahal could lead the Party Unification Coordination Committee while Oli heads the government, and vice versa. “There is no alternative to unification of the two parties,” Bhusal told THT. Stating that the joint statement released by the two parties while announcing the formation of the left alliance on October 3 mentions Oli and Dahal as ‘major leaders’, Bhusal said the two ‘major leaders’ would lead the government on rotation basis.

On the unification of the two parties, Bhusal said the left alliance would come up with a concrete road-map and modalities for unification by March.

THT Online

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