Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dah💫al ‘Prachanda’ on Monday won a vote of confidence in Parliament, the fourth within 18 months of taking office.
Prachanda, 69, a former guerilla leader from the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) -- the third largest party in the House of Represen🐼tatives (HoR) -- received 157 votes in the 275-member H♈ouse of Representatives.
In total 158 lawmakers took part in the voting. The main Opposition Nepali Congress boycotted the voting process. One HoR member re🉐mained neutral.
The vote comes days aftꦯer one of the coalition partners, Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP), withdrew its suppo𓃲rt last week for his government while quitting the coalition government.
This was the fourth t🃏ime that Prachanda sought a vote of confidence in the Houseﷺ in less since he assumed prime ministership in December 2022.
According to constitutional provisions, a prime min🉐ister has to take a vote of confidence after an a꧟lly withdraws support to the ruling coalition.
