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| Political parties of Nepal |
| 2025-09-18 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Text taken from the Telegram channel of pithhelmet Commentary by Russian military journalist is in italics. [ColonelCassad] Suddenly. Likbez according to the political timetable in Nepal. Since I don't follow this country at all, like 99% of the population, it was interesting to get acquainted. Likbez by Nepali political parties: 1. Nepali Congress (88 seats in the parliament out of 275) -- as the name suggests, this is something related to the Indian National Congress. Indeed, the party was founded in 1947 by Nepalese liberals who were in exile in Calcutta. These liberals wanted to modernize a very archaic state system: the country was ruled by a dynasty of hereditary prime ministers, representatives of the largest feudal family of Rana, and the main source of income for the Nepalese economy was the supply of mercenaries to the British-Indian army. The Nepali Congress concluded an alliance with the completely powerless Nepalese king Tribhuvan. In 1950, the king fled to India, Jawaharlal Nehru held difficult negotiations with members of the Rana family and forced him to hand over power in a good way. The king and congressmen returned to Kathmandu - to build a new Nepal and democracy But soon enough it became clear that the royal family has its own views on the development of the country and the monarch does not want to give a particularly significant role to the parliament. In 1960, Tribhuvan's son Mahendra staged a coup d'état, arrested Congress Prime Minister Bishweshwar Koirala and restored absolute monarchy. Congress leaders went into exile and returned only at the end of the 1980s, when Mahendra's son Birendra began to gradually restore democracy. But not only they returned, but also 2. Nepalese communists. The Communist Party was founded in the late 1940s. in the Indian emigration -- the same as the Congress. Communists (Nepalese students who studied in Calcutta) welcomed the overthrow of Ran, returned together with congressmen to their families, but the king banned the activities of the Communist Party. Later, to create a political counterbalance to the Congress, he allowed it, but in 1960 he banned all parties altogether. Communists went into exile. Like many opposition emigrants, they were mainly engaged in internal conflicts. In addition, pro-Moscow and pro-Beijing groups appeared. As a result, by the time of the restoration of parliamentary democracy, there were several dozen communist parties accusing each other of misinterpreting Marxist teachings. The following groups are of interest to us: 2a) Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist-Leninist Party) (76 seats in parliament) -- was assembled in the early 1990s. from those groups that, in principle, were ready to recognize the parliamentary monarchy of King Birendra. During the 1990s KPN (OM-L) successfully fought with the Congress for control of the parliament. But in 2001, the royal family of Nepal experienced (https://t.me/pithhelmet/481) a truly Shakespearean drama, as a result of which King Gyanendra ascended the throne, and the whole country entered a zone of political turbulence. Nepalese Maoists began to gain influence 2b) Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Center) (32 seats in parliament) -- in the mid-1990s. began an armed struggle against the royal power. They initially advocated for the republic, by the mid-2000s. concluded an alliance with the Communist Party of Ukraine (OM-L) and the Congress, which were extremely dissatisfied with Gyanendra's policy. In 2008, the country was declared a republic, the Maoists won the elections. From 2008 to the present day, two communist parties and the Congress have dominated the parliament of Nepal Let's see how the early elections announced by the military will affect these decades-long scandals.As usual, ordinary Nepalese will pay for the restoration of the destroyed administrative center of the country. And without that, the poor country suffered damage of hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars. The structure itself with Maoists and liberals certainly does not look very stable. |
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