The politics of Nepal functions within the framework of a parliamentary republic with a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the Prime Minister and their cabinet,while legislative power is vested in the Parliament.
The Nepali Congress is the largest social democratic political party in Nepal. As per the results of recent local election,Nepali Congress stands as the single largest party of Nepal in local levels. It is the current ruling party of Nepal since July 2021. With more than one million active members,the party remains the largest party in Nepal by membership.
The Communist Party of Nepal is the second largest political party in Nepal. As per the results of recent elections,CPN (UML) stands as the second largest party of Nepal at all levels of government. There have been four prime ministers from the party while the party has led the government five times. CPN (UML) currently serves as the opposition in the Federal Parliament of Nepal and all of the seven provincial assemblies. As of 2021,the party claims to have nearly 600,000 members.
Sher Bahadur Deuba is a Nepali politician serving as the prime minister of Nepal since 13 July 2021. He has also been serving as the president of the Nepali Congress since 2016. Deuba has previously served four terms as the prime minister and is the Member of Parliament for the parliamentary constituency of Dadeldhura 1.
Nepal Ratna Girija Prasad Koirala,affectionately known as Girija Babu,was a Nepalese politician. He headed the Nepali Congress and served as the Prime Minister of Nepal on four occasions,including from 1991 to 1994,1998 to 1999,2000 to 2001,and from 2006 to 2008. He was the Acting Head of State of Nepal between January 2007 and July 2008 as the country transitioned from a monarchy to a republic.
Madhav Kumar Nepal,is a Nepalese politician and former Prime Minister of Nepal. He served as Prime Minister of Nepal from 25 May 2009 to 6 February 2011 for nearly two years.
General elections were held in Nepal on 15 November 1994 to elect the Nepal House of Representatives. The election took place after the previous Nepali Congress government collapsed and King Birenda called new elections. The results saw the Communist Party of Nepal win the most seats in the House of Representatives and Man Mohan Adhikari became Prime Minister at the head of a minority government.
Upendra Yadav is a Nepalese politician who has served as the chairman of the People's Socialist Party,Nepal since 2020. He has been the Member of Parliament for Saptari 2 since 2017. He served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal under the government of KP Sharma Oli from 2018 to 2020. He also served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Dahal cabinet from 2008 to 2009 and in the Khanal cabinet in 2011.
Prakash Man Singh is a Nepalese politician and a leader of the Nepali Congress. He is the son of political stalwart Ganesh Man Singh. He has also served as the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Local Development and Federalism in Sushil Koirala's Cabinet.
Purna Kumari Subedi is a Nepalese politician,belonging to the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) who served as the vice chairperson of the Constituent Assembly. In the 2008 Constituent Assembly election she was elected from the Banke-4 constituency,winning 13884 votes.
Hridayesh Tripathi is a Nepalese politician,belonging to the People's Progressive Party. He's also the current chairman of the party.
Shashank Koirala is a Nepalese politician and Member of House of Representatives,belonging to the political dynasty of Koirala family. Shashanka is also a renowned ophthalmologist.
Ram Chandra Paudel is a Nepalese politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister and Speaker of the House of Representatives of Nepal. He is the senior leader of the Nepali Congress. He is popularly called as ‘Ram Chandra Dai’by fellow Nepali Congress Cadets.
Rabindra Prasad Adhikari was a Nepali politician and three time parliamentarian,belonging to the Nepal Communist Party (NCP). He was Minister of Culture,Tourism and Civil Aviation from 16 March 2018 until his death in a helicopter crash. He was the Kaski District secretary of the party. In the 2008 Constituent Assembly election,Adhikari was elected from the Kaski-3 constituency,with 13,386 votes. In the 2013 Constituent Assembly election,he was re-elected from the Kaski-3 constituency,with 15,456 votes. In 2017,CPN-UML candidate Rabindra Adhikari won parliamentary elections from Kaski Constituency No. 2. Representing the left alliance,Adhikari secured 27,207 votes to defeat Nepali Congress candidate Dev Raj Chalise,who got 18,661 votes. After his demise,his wife Bidya Bhattarai won Kaski Constituency-2 with a wide margin of 8,403 votes in the by-election. Bhattarai secured 24,394 votes while her nearest contender Khem Raj Poudel from main opposition Nepali Congress got 15,991. Likewise,Socialist Party's Dharma Raj Gurung got 1,922 votes. He authored the books Constituent Assembly,Democracy and Re-structuring.
Agni Prasad Sapkota is a Nepalese politician and current speaker of the House of Representatives. He was elected speaker unopposed on 26 January 2020,after the previous speaker,Krishna Bahadur Mahara,resigned over allegations of attempted sexual assault. Sapkota previously served as a minister in the cabinets of prime ministers Jhala Nath Khanal and KP Sharma Oli.
Subas Chandra Nemwang (Limbu) is a Nepalese politician and the former chairman of Constituent Assembly of Nepal. He was the first elected Free Students Union chairman of Mahendra Ratna Campus in Ilam and also elected as general secretary of Nepal Bar Association in 1987.
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli is a Nepalese politician and former Prime Minister of Nepal. He served three terms as prime minister from 11 October 2015 to 3 August 2016,from 15 February 2018 to 13 May 2021 as the first elected prime minister under the new constitution,and from 13 May 2021 to 13 July 2021.
General elections were held in Nepal in two phases on 26 November and 7 December 2017 to elect the 275 members of the fifth House of Representatives,the lower house of the Federal Parliament of Nepal. The election was held alongside the first provincial elections for the seven provincial assemblies. A political deadlock between the governing Nepali Congress and the winning left-wing coalition over the system used to elect the upper house led to delay in forming the new government. Following the announcement of final result by the Election Commission,K.P. Oli of Communist Party of Nepal was sworn in as Prime Minister on 15 February 2018 by the President according to Article 76 (2) of the constitution. He passed a Motion of Confidence on 11 March 2018 with 208 votes.
Chakka Bahadur Lama is a Nepalese politician serving as a member of parliament in the 1st Federal Parliament for Humla 1 He had previously served as a member of parliament in the 2nd House of Representatives.
General elections were held in Nepal on 20 November 2022 to elect the 275 members of the House of Representatives. There were two ballots in the election;one to elect 165 members from single-member constituencies via FPTP,and the other to elect the remaining 110 members from a single nation-wide constituency via party-list proportional representation.
