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Article

Publication Date

Summer 8-5-2024

Abstract

On 2nd July 2024, the Communist Party of Nepal- United Marxist Leninist (UML) struck a power-sharing deal with its earlier nemesis, the Nepali Congress (NC), and formed a new coalition. Surprisingly, UML left its ruling ally, the Maoist Center (MC) barely four months after joining hands. Coalition politics in Nepal ages old but this newly formed coalition nonplussed the analyst and political sphere. There are scattered and obstinate market narratives regarding this coalition. A gap exists in thematically framing those narrations. Therefore, this paper thematically presents those scattered narrations under three levels: individual, state, and system. At the individual level, the insecure leadership of Deuba and Oli alongside the contemptuous leadership of Oli and Prachanda paved the way for this coalition. At the state level, unstable politics and governance are greases towards this coalition. At the system level, geopolitics mustered NC and UML leaders to ally to form this coalition. This paper uses an inductive method and develops themes by analyzing secondary data from expert interviews.

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English

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