With 188 votes in support of him out of 263 MPs present, Nepal’s Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli prevailed in a critical floor test. After passing the test with 138 votes, Oli was able to win a vote of confidence in the politically fragile country three days after taking office.
On Sunday, July 21, the House of Representatives of Nepal gave Prime Minister “K.P. Sharma Oli” the statutory authority to remain in office.
Over two-thirds of MPs supported K.P. Sharma in a vital floor test on Sunday, almost one week after he took office and assumed leadership of the country’s coalition government amid political unrest in the Himalayas.
With 188 votes in support of his move for a vote of confidence and 74 votes against it, K.P. Sharma won the vote. One representative abstained out of the 263 people in the House of Representatives in attendance.
Speaker “Devraj Ghimire” said during the vote count that the motion of confidence put out by Prime Minister K.P. Sharma had received a majority endorsement.
Sources claim that K.P. Sharma revealed his agreement with Sher Bahadur Deuba, the chief of the Nepali Congress, and stated that he would serve as prime minister for two years after taking office before handing over coalition leadership to Deuba until November 2027.
Nepal’s constitution.
As per the Constitution of Nepal, K.P. Sharma was required to get a vote of confidence from the Parliament within a 30-day period after his appointment. On Monday, he took the oath of office as the fourth prime minister of Nepal.
Prior to this, during the filing of the petition for a vote of confidence in his administration, K.P. Sharma revealed the details of the seven-point accord that the CPN-UML and the Nepali Congress had struck earlier this month.
As part of their efforts to solve the urgent concerns facing the nation, K.P. Sharma claimed that the two biggest parties came to an agreement.
Although there are ideological conflicts between the two parties, the Congress and the UML do occasionally work together. This is an extension of that partnership. He claimed that we have decided to collaborate in order to safeguard national interests, prevent corruption, enhance governance, hasten development projects, and guarantee political stability in line with popular preferences.
Nepal: under Oli’s governance.
With the Nepali Congress’s backing, K.P. Sharma took office as prime minister on July 15 and outlined five goals for his administration. He listed these as finishing off current projects, creating things domestically rather than importing them, encouraging local material-using enterprises, carrying on the favorable policies of past administrations, making necessary budget amendments, and ending hunger.
He went on to say that corruption would neither be allowed nor tolerated by his government. He declared that the administration would boldly pursue sound governance. He further addressed concerns brought up by the members of the House of Representatives, saying that he would not allow corruption and that he was not and would not participate in it.
Members of K.P. Sharma’s Vote of Confidence resolution in the House of Representatives included members of the ruling alliance, the Nepali Congress, the CPN-UML, the Loktantrik Samajwadi Party, and the Janata Samajwadi Party Nepal. Whereas, the oppositional groups during the floor test were the CPN-Maoist Center, CPN-Unified Socialist, Rashtriya Swatantra Party, and Rastriya Prajatantra Party.
Constitutionally ill, the Oli’s appointment.
Along with the other twenty-one members of the Cabinet, the prominent Communist leader was sworn in as prime minister of the Himalayan nation on Monday.
With reference to the necessity of a “serious constitutional interpretation,” the Supreme Court of Nepal on Sunday submitted a petition contesting Oli’s nomination to the position of prime minister to a constitutional bench.
Shortly after Monday’s swearing-in, three activists filed the case at the highest court, claiming that Oli’s nomination was illegal and requesting an annulment by mandamus.
President Ram Chandra Paudel named the chairman of the CPN-UML, the biggest communist party in Nepal, as prime minister on Sunday. He will head the coalition government with the Nepali Congress (NC), which is the biggest party in Parliament, and several minor parties. Pushpa Kamal Dahal, often known as “Prachanda,” was succeeded by Oli after he was ousted from office on July 12 by the House of Representatives.
