Politics of Nepal
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The politics of Nepal functions within the framework of a parliamentary republic with a multi-party system.[1] Executive power is exercised by the Prime Minister and their cabinet, while legislative power is vested in the Parliament.
political science नेपाली राजनीति | |
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Polity type | Federal Parliamentary Republic |
Constitution | Constitution of Nepal |
Legislative branch | |
Name | Parliament |
Type | Bicameral |
Meeting place | Sansad Bhavan |
Upper house | |
Name | Rastriya Sabha |
Presiding officer | Ganesh Prasad Timilsina, Chairman |
Appointer | Electoral College |
Lower house | |
Name | Pratinidhi Sabha |
Presiding officer | Dev Raj Ghimire, Speaker of the Pratinidhi Sabha |
Executive branch | |
Head of State | |
Title | President |
Currently | Ram Chandra Poudel |
Appointer | Electoral College |
Head of Government | |
Title | Prime Minister |
Currently | Pushpa Kamal Dahal |
Appointer | President |
Cabinet | |
Name | Council of Ministers of Nepal |
Current cabinet | Dahal cabinet, 2022 |
Leader | Prime Minister |
Deputy leader | Deputy Prime Minister |
Appointer | President |
Headquarters | Singha Durbar, Kathmandu |
Ministries | 25 |
Judicial branch | |
Name | Judiciary |
Supreme Court | |
Seat | Ram Shah Path, Kathmandu |
High Courts of Nepal | |
Seat | 7 Province of Nepal |
District Courts of Nepal | |
Seat | 77 Districts of Nepal |
The Governing Nepali Congress and Communist Party of Nepal (UML) have been the main rivals of each other since the early 1990s, with each party defeating the other in successive elections.[2][3][4] There are seven major political parties in the federal parliament: Nepali Congress (NC),[1] CPN (UML), CPN (Maoist-centre), CPN (Unified Socialist), People's Socialist Party, Nepal, Loktantrik Samajwadi Party, Nepal and People's Progressive Party.[1] While all major parties officially espouse democratic socialism, UML, Unified Socialist and Maoist-centre are considered leftist while the Nepali Congress, Democratic Socialist Party and People's Progressive Party are considered centrist, with most considering them center-left and some center-right.[5] The party PSP-N is center-left to left-wing.[6] During most of the brief periods of democratic exercise in the 1950s and 1990s, Nepali Congress held a majority in parliament.[7] After a ten-year civil war, the Nepalese parliament voted to abolish the monarchy in June 2006, and Nepal became a federal republic on 28 May 2008. A new constitution was adopted in 2015, and in 2017 Nepal held its first general election since the end of the civil war, in which the Nepal Communist Party (a short-lived merger of the UML and Maoist-centre) won a majority at the federal level as well as in six of the seven provinces.[8][9]
The Economist Intelligence Unit rated Nepal a "hybrid regime" in 2022,[10] while the 2018 Polity data series considers it to be a democracy.[11] According to the V-Dem Democracy indices Nepal was 2023 the 7th most electoral democratic country in Asia.[12]