Constitutional amendment through referendum

Power-hungry politicians gravitating toward new parties/faces in search of solutions have failed the people.

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s so-called ‘magic number’ edifice is collapsing. The two largest parties in the 275-seat House of Representatives—Nepali Congress and Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist-Leninist), with 88 and 78 seats respectively—have decided to coalesce to form the next government. This will end the most recent alliance struck in March this year between Khadga Prasad Oli-led CPN (UML) and Dahal-led Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre). Dahal, with 32 seats which he referred to as a magic number, has been in power since December 2022, switching alliances three other times to survive during these 18 months. It seems things have come full circle for Dahal.