Sher Bahadur Deuba wins vote of confidence in Nepal Parliament

Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba secured a cushty majority within the House of Representatives on Sunday, together with his Nepali Congress being joined by most different events — together with a piece of the primary opposition Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) — in supporting the vote of confidence tabled within the House on the primary day that it convened after it was reinstated by the Supreme Court.
A complete of 165 members voted in help of Deuba, with simply 83, largely loyalists of CPN-UML chairman and outgoing prime minister Ok P Sharma Oli, casting their votes in opposition to.
The vote got here after hours of debate, which noticed a collection of allegations and counter-allegations. The CPN-UML maintained that Oli was proper to dissolve the House and name new elections, and criticised the Supreme Court judgment. But Dueba’s supporters, together with senior leaders from a number of events, accused Oli of being dictatorial in having twice dissolved the House. Oli was additionally criticised for what opponents say was an extreme use of ordinances.
Deuba, in the meantime, stated his authorities’s precedence was to make sure Covid-19 vaccine provide, and to maintain pleasant relations with all neighbouring international locations.

Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda”, chief of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist Centre, stated Oli was an “autocrat” and somebody who did not act as per the spirit of the peace course of and the Constitution. He accused President Bidya Devi Bhandari and Oli of systematically going in opposition to the Constitution. “Bhandari did not act fairly and as per the letter and spirit of the Constitution when she denied Deuba the right to be invited to form the government after he had submitted support of 149 members of the House… on May 22.”

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“I had told her that we are ready for physical verification, and was hoping that she would refer it to the House to formally elect him as the prime minister,” Prachanda stated. He added that Bhandari selected to dismiss the House on Oli’s suggestion and appointed the identical one who had misplaced the mandate because the prime minister once more. Prachanda was referring to the truth that Oli had misplaced a vote of confidence within the House days earlier than the House was dissolved.
Oli was ousted because the prime minister following a unanimous verdict of a five-member Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court on July 12. The Bench dominated that the dissolved House be reinstated and that Deuba be appointed prime minister primarily based on the letter of help that he had submitted to the President.
Deuba was required to hunt a vote of confidence within the House inside a month of being appointed prime minister.