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नेपाली राजनीति
National Emblem of Nepal
Polity type
Federal Parliamentary Republic
Constitution
Constitution of Nepal
Legislative branch
Name
Parliament
Type
Bicameral
Meeting place
Sansad Bhavan
Upper house
Name
Rastriya Sabha
Presiding officer
Ganesh Prasad Timilsina, Chairman
Appointer
Electoral College
Lower house
Name
Pratinidhi Sabha
Presiding officer
Dev Raj Ghimire, Speaker of the Pratinidhi Sabha
Executive branch
Head of State
Title
President
Currently
Ram Chandra Poudel
Appointer
Electoral College
Head of Government
Title
Prime Minister
Currently
Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Appointer
President
Cabinet
Name
Council of Ministers of Nepal
Current cabinet
Dahal cabinet, 2022
Leader
Prime Minister
Deputy leader
Deputy Prime Minister
Appointer
President
Headquarters
Singha Durbar, Kathmandu
Ministries
25
Judicial branch
Name
Judiciary
Supreme Court
Seat
Ram Shah Path, Kathmandu
High Courts of Nepal
Seat
7 Province of Nepal
District Courts of Nepal
Seat
77 Districts of Nepal
The politics of Nepal functions within the framework of a parliamentary republic with a multi-party system.[1] Executive power is exercised by the Prime Minister and their cabinet, while legislative power is vested in the Parliament.
The Governing Nepali Congress and Communist Party of Nepal (UML) have been the main rivals of each other since the early 1990s, with each party defeating the other in successive elections.[2][3][4] There are seven major political parties in the federal parliament: Nepali Congress (NC),[1] CPN (UML), CPN (Maoist-centre), CPN (Unified Socialist), People's Socialist Party, Nepal, Loktantrik Samajwadi Party, Nepal and People's Progressive Party.[1] While all major parties officially espouse democratic socialism, UML, Unified Socialist and Maoist-centre are considered leftist while the Nepali Congress, Democratic Socialist Party and People's Progressive Party are considered centrist, with most considering them center-left and some center-right.[5] The party PSP-N is center-left to left-wing.[6] During most of the brief periods of democratic exercise in the 1950s and 1990s, Nepali Congress held a majority in parliament.[7] After a ten-year civil war, the Nepalese parliament voted to abolish the monarchy in June 2006, and Nepal became a federal republic on 28 May 2008. A new constitution was adopted in 2015, and in 2017 Nepal held its first general election since the end of the civil war, in which the Nepal Communist Party (a short-lived merger of the UML and Maoist-centre) won a majority at the federal level as well as in six of the seven provinces.[8][9]
The Economist Intelligence Unit rated Nepal a "hybrid regime" in 2022,[10] while the 2018 Polity data series considers it to be a democracy.[11] According to the V-Dem Democracy indices Nepal was 2023 the 7th most electoral democratic country in Asia.[12]
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