Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
political party in Nepal
The Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) (CPN (UML)) is a communist political party in Nepal. The party emerged as one of the major parties in Nepal after the end of the Panchayat era.
K. P. Sharma Oli has been serving as party chairman since the party's ninth general convention in 2014. The party currently holds 79 seats in the House of Representatives, having won 26.95% of the party list votes in the 2022 general election and is the second largest parliamentary group. There have been four prime ministers from the party while the party has led the government six times with the most recent Oli government which was deposed by 2025 Nepalese Gen Z protests.
CPN (UML) was the main opposition in 1991 after the first election following the restoration of multi-party democracy. The party led a minority government under Manmohan Adhikari following the 1994 election. The party joined a coalition government with CPN (Maoist) in 2008 in the first elections after the end of the monarchy in Nepal and led two governments under Madhav Kumar Nepal and Jhala Nath Khanal during the term of the 1st Constituent Assembly. The party also led the first government after the promulgation of the new constitution with K. P. Sharma Oli serving as prime minister. Oli again served as prime minister following the 2017 election.
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