Nepal's Maoist Leader Losing Power

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Nepal's Maoist Leader Losing Power
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Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has lost a vote of no confidence in Nepal's parliament. As a result, his third term as leader of the country is over.

The 69-year-old, better known as Prachanda, hid in the jungle for several years during Nepal's civil war from 1996-2006, a war that led to the end of the monarchy in the country and the deaths of thousands of people.

After the peace agreement in 2006, Dahal's Maoist revolutionary movement was reformed into a political party and he was prime minister from 2008-2009 and again from 2016-2017 before he took office again on Christmas Day 2022.

He himself is still convinced that he should be allowed to stay.

We may never again see a person like Prachanda, who opens the doors to peace with the power of a revolution, he said before the vote and referred to himself in the third person.

The Maoist is expected to be succeeded by K P Sharma Oli, former prime minister and leader of a rival communist party, who sees himself as Marxist-Leninist.

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