दाङ । फ्रान्सको एक चर्चित पत्रिका ‘ले मोन्डे’ ले राजनीतिक अस्थिरतामा नेपाल विश्व च्याम्पियन भएको समाचार प्रकाशित गरेको छ । पछिल्लो चरणमा नेपालमा निरन्तर रूपमा भइरहेको सत्ता परिवर्तनलाई लिएर नेपाल, द वर्ल्ड च्याम्पियन अफ पोलिटिकल इस्टाबिलिटी’ शीर्षकमा एउटा समाचार प्रकाशित गरेको छ ।
सानो हिमाली गणतन्त्रमा हालै १५ वर्षमा १४औँ प्रधानमन्त्री नियुक्त भएको जनाएको छ । राजनीतिक अस्थिरताको ओलम्पिक खेलमा नेपालले सबैभन्दा उच्च स्थान पाएको समाचार प्रकाशन गरेको छ ।
सन् २०२२ को तथ्यांकअनुसार फ्रान्समा अपराह्नकालीन ले मोन्डेको सर्कुलेसन औसतमा प्रति अंक चार लाख ८० हजार प्रति छ । विदेशमा पनि यो पत्रिका ४० हजार प्रति बिक्री हुने जनाइएको छ ।
यस्तो छ ले मोन्डेले प्रकाशन गरेको समाचारको केही अंश
Nepal, the world champion of political instability
The small Himalayan republic has just appointed its 14th prime minister in 15 years, illustrating a culture of purely transactional public affairs as a growing number of unemployed young people leave the country.
In the political instability Olympic Games, Nepal continues to claim top spot on the podium. The new Prime Minister, Khadga Prasad “KP” Sharma Oli, 72, who was sworn in on Monday July 15, is the 14th head of government since 2008. And the 30th since the restoration of parliamentary democracy in 1990. That’s almost a new prime minister every year, a remarkable feat for a small republic of 30 million inhabitants.
In Nepal’s recent history, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Oli – leader of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), or CPN (UML), which is in fact ideologically close to European-style social democrats – will lead his country’s government for the fourth time since 2015. The man he has replaced, former Maoist guerrilla “Lider Maximo” Pushpa Kamal Dahal, was in his third stint at the helm since 2009.
The number of alliances, counter-alliances, reversals and betrayals between the leaders of Nepalese politics is staggering. For example, the communists have sometimes allied themselves with an ultra-monarchist party, even though the two parties had been the greatest enemies for years. Former prime minister Dahal’s Maoists, on the other hand, have allied themselves with their fiercest adversaries for ages, the Nepali Congress, the country’s major centrist party, which has long remained in power.
Stormy relations with India
The latest political upheaval is no exception to the unwritten rule of absolute cynicism in politics, an art that has reached new heights in the land of Everest and Annapurna: the new PM Oli had just been the intermittent ally of the outgoing Dahal, in an unlikely alliance, as the two communist parties are ideologically far apart. The new ruling coalition, meanwhile, is the product of an agreement between Oli’s CPN (UML) and the Nepali Congress Party (NC), whose president, Sher Bahadur Deuba, has himself been prime minister five times since 1997. It would be doubtful whether it has a bright future ahead of it.
In order to achieve a semblance of balance, the two men – who are politically opposed to each other – have agreed on a system that has already been tried and tested in the past. They will “rotate” their governments, taking it in turns to hold the post of head of government until 2027, when the current term of office of the National Assembly comes to an end.
“Party principles, policies, and programs have absolutely no bearing on political alliances anymore, all that matters is rank and power, it doesn’t matter whom parties ally with to achieve it,” said former MP Pari Thapa sadly in the columns of the weekly newspaper Nepali Times two years ago.
