President Dr. Mohamed Muizzu has congratulated the new Prime Minister of Nepal Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli after the country’s two largest parties formed a coalition.
A statement on Sunday by the office of the president said the 72-year-old Oli will take his oath of office on Monday, the fourth time he is becoming the prime minister.
He is replacing Pushpa Kamal Dahal, whose 18-month-old government collapsed on Friday after Oli’s party, the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist, agreed to a new coalition with the center-left Nepali Congress party.
In his message on X, President Muizzu said that the Maldives and Nepal enjoy close people-to-people connections. He went on to say that he looks forward to working with the new Prime Minister of Nepal to enhance bilateral cooperation between the two countries.
Oli will now have to succeed where his predecessor failed earlier this week, securing a vote of confidence in parliament to continue in office within a month. The two parties have more than half the members in parliament required for a majority vote.
Under the new power-sharing arrangement, Oli and the Nepali Congress party’s president Sher Bahadur Deuba, 78, will rotate in holding the prime minister’s post until the next general election in 2027.
