I have decided to open the road to elect a new prime minister in this parliament and presented my resignation to the president,” Mr Oli, who has only been in power for nine months, told MPs ahead of the no-confidence vote.Nepal’s President is now expected to ask political parties to try to form a new power-sharing government and nominate a consensus candidate for prime minister. Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has resigned, minutes before facing a no-confidence motion in Parliament he was certain to lose, plunging the impoverished, quake-hit nation into fresh turmoil.Mr Oli was forced to quit after former Maoist rebels deserted his fractious, ruling coalition, accusing him of reneging on past deals and following deadly unrest over a divisive new constitution.”
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