Left alliance, Chapter II

No government can succeed without a minimum level of trust and coalition culture.

There has again been a dramatic development in Nepali politics. Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal walking away from a coalition with the Nepali Congress and forging a new partnership with the CPN-UML has stirred national politics. Dahal has changed his allies for the third time in under a year and a half. His party fought the 2022 November polls under an electoral alliance with the Congress and other parties and emerged the third-largest in the House of Representatives. In December, he became prime minister with the UML’s backing but the left partnership quickly unraveled. Dahal and Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba then revived the Congress-Maoist Centre alliance. No wonder there is a growing belief, in and outside the country, that Nepali politicians are forever ready to make or break governments.