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The Government of Nepal exercises its executive authority through a number of government ministries. The ministries are headed by a cabinet minister , who sits in the Council of Ministers , and is sometimes supported by a state minister .
In other words, candidates from any political party failing to meet the criteria to become a national party will be ineligible to be represented in parliament as a party. [ 2 ] [ 7 ] There are currently five such political parties which failed to achieve national status yet are represented in Nepal's Parliament .
'National Democratic Party'; abbr. RPP, RaPraPa (Nepali: राप्रपा)) is a constitutional monarchist and Hindu nationalist political party in Nepal. [7] The party was formed by Panchayat era prime ministers Surya Bahadur Thapa and Lokendra Bahadur Chand in 1990. The party led two coalition governments in 1997 under Thapa and Chand.
According to the Constitution of Nepal, the Prime Minister is appointed by the President of Nepal. The President on the recommendation of the Prime Minister of Nepal forms a council of ministers consisting of members not exceeding twenty five in number from among the members of the federal parliament on the basis of the principle of inclusion. [1]
The first general election was held in 1959 and Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala became the first elected prime minister of Nepal. However, he was deposed and imprisoned in the 1960 coup d'état by King Mahendra who went on to establish an oligarchic authoritative regime, the Panchayat system , and Nepal did not have a democratic government until 1990.
The Fourth Oli Cabinet is the current Government of Nepal, formed on 15 July 2024 after KP Sharma Oli was sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Nepal by president Ram Chandra Poudel. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Oli was appointed prime minister as per Article 76(2) of the constitution , following the ouster of the government of Pushpa Kamal Dahal after a failed ...
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal called the vote in Nepal's lower house of parliament after a minor party in his coalition broke apart and its members withdrew support from the government.
The Panchayat loyalists formed National Democratic Party, which emerged as the third major party. While Nepali Congress ran the government for most of the next ten years of democracy that followed, democracy was mostly a disappointment owing to the immature democratic culture and political infighting in the capital, as well as the civil war ...