Nepal Gets A New Leader

Nepal's newly elected Prime Minister Jhalanath Khanal leaves the parliament house in Kathmandu, capital of Nepal, Feb. 3, 2011. The Constituent Assembly of Nepal elected Thursday the Communist Party of Nepal - Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) Chairman Jhalanath Khanal as the 34th prime minister of the country. (Xinhua/Bimal Gautam)

Nepal Gets New Leader, But Future Still Jittery -- Christian Science Monitor

Nepal got a new prime minister after seven months of a leadership vacuum. Some say the new coalition may result in boosting the agenda of the Maoist party.

Nepal got a functioning prime minister after seven months of leadership vacuum on Thursday, but analysts refused to call it a breakthrough and remained jittery about the future of the country’s stalled peace process.

Jhala Nath Khanal, the chief of a moderate communist party, Unified Marxist Leninist (UML), was elevated to the post after 16 rounds of voting. He got last-minute backing from the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), which fought a 10-year war against state forces until 2006.

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