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Powersharing Transitional Government – 2009

The Maoist government made a controversial decision to dismiss the Chief of Army Staff, General Rookmangad Katawal. President Ram Baran Yadav did not approve the Cabinet decision and directly instructed Katawal to continue to work as the Chief, which prompted the resignation of the Prime Minister Dahal on 4 May 2009.¹ A new coalition government of 21 parties was formed under Madhav Kumar Nepal, a leader in the Communist Party of Nepal-United Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML). This was on 23 May 2009.² This was a coalition government that excluded the largest party in the Constituent Assembly: the Maoist party. The power sharing consensus government did not materialize in 2009.

1. “Nepal’s Peace Process at the Crossroads,” Conflict Study Center (Situation Update 83), May 10, 2009.
2. “Secretary General’s Report to the Security Council,” United Nations (S/2009/351), July 13, 2009.