Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxists-Leninists)

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Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxists-Leninists)
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Party leader Khadga Prasad Oli
founding January 6, 1991
fusion May 17, 2018
(incorporated into: Nepalese Communist Party )
Headquarters Balkhu, Kathmandu , Nepal
Colours) red
Pratinidi Sabha
121/275
International connections International meeting of communist and workers' parties
Website www.cpnuml.org

The Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist-Leninists) ( CPN-UML ), Nepala Kamyunishta Parti (Ekikrit Marksbadi ra Leninbadi) was a communist party in Nepal until it was merged with the sister party Communist Party of Nepal-Maosti Center in 2018 to form the Nepalese Communist Party (NPC).

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The CPN-UML was committed to the multi-party system and wanted to achieve socialism through parliamentary channels .

history

The party emerged in 1991 from the merger of the Communist Party of Nepal (Marxists) and the Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninists) . She led a minority government from 1994 to 1997 under her then party chairman Man Mohan Adhikari and was part of a government coalition from 1997 to 1999. The CPN-UML rejected the People's War of the Communist Party of the Nepal-Maosti Center (CPN-MC), but has advocated a negotiated solution to the conflict, especially since 1999. Since King Gyanendra came to power in 2001 and increasingly since the elimination of parliament in 2005, the party has relied on extra-parliamentary mobilization and was part of the seven alliance of opposition parties, which u. a. also belongs to the other major party in the country, the Nepalese Congress Party . Since April 2007, the party was part of the transitional government with six of 23 ministers.

Oli was elected chairman of the party in July 2014. He won against his internal party predecessor Jhala Nath Khanal with 98 to 75 votes.

From the elections for the second constituent assembly on November 19, 2013 , the Nepali Congress and the CPN-UML emerged as clear winners. It also succeeded in doing this in the first House elections at the end of 2017 after the new constitution was passed in 2015 . Since 15 February 2018, the party chairman is Khadga Prasad Oli again prime minister of Nepal .

On May 17, 2018, the CPN-UML merged with the Maoist sister party CPN-MC to form the Nepalese Communist Party (NPC). This union was preceded by lengthy negotiations, especially on the question of the number of members from the two parties in the new party bodies. The new party thus had 174 out of 275 members of the House of Representatives elected in 2017 and thus almost a constitution-changing majority.

Election results at national level

Election to the House of Representatives of the Kingdom of Nepal (Pratinidhi Sabha)

  • 1991 - 69 seats (out of 205)
  • 1994 - 88 seats (out of 205)
  • 1999 - 71 seats (out of 205)

Election to the Constituent Assembly of Nepal

  • 2008 - 108 seats (out of 601)
  • 2013 - 175 seats (out of 601)

Election to the House of Representatives of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( Pratinidi Sabha )

  • 2017 - 121 seats (out of 275)

Party executive

Leader of the Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist-Leninists)

General Secretaries of the Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist-Leninists)

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  1. ↑ The Himalayan Times: Oli elected UML chairman mixed results in other posts - Detail News: Nepal News Portal (en) . In: The Himalayan Times , July 15, 2014. 
  2. ^ Nepal congratulates Oli for election victory (en) , Myrepublica.com. July 15, 2014. Archived from the original on July 18, 2014 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.myrepublica.com 
  3. ^ Oli elected as UML PP leader (en) . In: eKantipur , February 4, 2014. 
  4. ↑ NEPAL Pratinidhi Sabha (House of Representatives), LAST ELECTIONS. INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION, accessed September 16, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Om Astha Rai: One body two heads . In: Nepali Times . May 2018 ( nepalitimes.com ).