Sher Bahadur Deuba: Veteran politician appointed prime minister of Nepal | Nepalese news

Sher Bahadur Deuba, who leads the Nepal Congress party, was appointed prime minister after the Supreme Court reinstated parliament.

Veteran Nepali politician Sher Bahadur Deuba has been appointed prime minister of the South Asian nation for the fifth time since the Supreme Court restored parliament dissolved by interim Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli in May.

President Bidya Devi Bhandari’s office said the new Prime Minister of Deuba, who leads the Nepali Congress party, was appointed by the high court on Tuesday to order the replacement of Oli Deuba and a day later.

He also ordered the reinstatement of the House of Representatives, which dissolved Oli in May, and said lawmakers must meet within seven days. Deuba will have to prove in the vote that he has the support of more than half of the members of the House to continue in office.

In May, Olik disbanded the House of Representatives – for the second time in just six months – amid political struggles. The Supreme Court has broken Oli’s intention to hold elections for the second time since December.

Deuba will lead the Himalayan nation as it struggles with political divisions and coronavirus.

He was appointed Prime Minister of the Nepal Congress in 1995, 2001, 2004 and 2017, but has never served a full term. This time, too, he will only run until the 2022 parliamentary elections.

The current chamber was elected in 2008 after the bloody Maoist uprising ended and the 200-year-old monarchy of Nepal was abolished.

Bring Nepal back to India

It is likely that Deuba will bring Nepal closer to India again, after Olik has improved relations with another of its giant neighbors, China.

He has been involved in politics since he was a university student. He was imprisoned for nine years for protesting against the autocratic rule of the now ousted monarchy. He has led the Congress of Nepal, the oldest political party in the country, for years.

In a televised speech, Oli criticized the Supreme Court’s decision, but said he would step down.

The coalition of opposition parties, which challenged the decision to dissolve the Oli House in May in the Supreme Court, said it had the support of a majority in parliament to form a new government. The decision to demolish the house in December was also overturned by the court in February.

Oli became prime minister in 2018 after the Communist Party of Nepal (NCP) won most of the seats in the House of Representatives. NCP was formed in 2018 through a merger between the Communist Party of Nepal – United Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Center).

But in February the court registered the NCP ruling for an extraordinary application, restoring the CPN-UML and the CPN (Maoist Center).

However, after half of his term in office, he refused to comply with the agreement to hand over power to the party leader, leading to political divisions and a weakening of Oli’s hold on power. Oli has also been criticized for handling the coronavirus pandemic.