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> FILE – In this Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015 file photo, Nepal’s Prime Minister Sushil Koirala, center right, Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist leader Khadga Prasad Oli, center, and Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, center left, shake hands after the final constitution process at Constitution Assembly hall in Kathmandu, Nepal. Nepal’s 598 members of parliament will select the nation's new prime minister on Sunday, Oct. 11, choosing between Koirala and Oli. Koirala became prime minister in 2014, but the constitution that was adopted last month required him to step down. He is, however, eligible to become prime minister again.
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> FILE – In this Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015 file photo, Nepal’s Prime Minister Sushil Koirala, center right, Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist leader Khadga Prasad Oli, center, and Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, center left, shake hands after the final constitution process at Constitution Assembly hall in Kathmandu, Nepal. Nepal’s 598 members of parliament will select the nation's new prime minister on Sunday, Oct. 11, choosing between Koirala and Oli. Koirala became prime minister in 2014, but the constitution that was adopted last month required him to step down. He is, however, eligible to become prime minister again.
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> KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal's parliament elected Communist party leader Khadga Prasad Oli </search/?action=search&channel=news%2Fworld&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Khadga+Prasad+Oli%22> the new prime minister of the Himalayan nation.
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> Parliament speaker Subash Nemwang </search/?action=search&channel=news%2Fworld&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Subash+Nemwang%22> announced Sunday that Oli had received 338 votes from a total 597 members in the chamber.
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> Oli defeated his predecessor Sushil Koirala </search/?action=search&channel=news%2Fworld&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Sushil+Koirala%22> in the vote. Oli and Koirala are leaders of the top two political parties and were coalition partners in the last government.
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> The new prime minister will have to deal with ongoing protests over the Himalayan country's new constitution, as well as unhappy neighbor India.