Presidential Poll Dominates National Politics

The country is awaiting a new president as the five-year term of the incumbent President Bidya Devi Bhandari ends by the second week of March and the election for the next president being slated for March 9. Nepali politics hinges on the question who would be the next president especially from which party, the CPN-UML or the Nepali Congress (NC)? It is believed that the CPN-Maoist Centre agreed to give the president and speaker of the House of Representatives to CPN-UML while keeping the post of prime minister with itself as per a power-sharing deal among the seven parties including the newly emerged Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), RPP and other smaller parties forged on December 25, 2022.