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Nepal king reappoints elected PM sacked in 2002 KATHMANDU, Wednesday (AFP) King Gyanendra of Nepal on Wednesday reappointed as prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, the elected leader whom he had fired from the job two years ago, state radio announced. A palace statement read over the radio said Deuba would "be invested with executive rights," unlike the previous royal-appointed prime minister who could not make appointments without the approval by the king. Gyanendra in October 2002 dismissed Deuba for "incompetence" and took charge of the government, setting off protests by the major political parties. The king had given the opposition until Monday to select a candidate for prime minister to end the turmoil, but the parties failed to come up with a name. Narayan Khadka, a senior aide to Deuba, said the dissolved parliament's main opposition communists backed the ex-premier as did the right-wing National Democratic Party. There was no immediate reaction to Deuba's appointment from the kingdom's largest party, the Nepali Congress, which was at the forefront of protests. Deuba is a veteran of the Nepali Congress but the party leadership expelled him in 2002 to protest his decision to call early elections - which were suspended four months later when the king sacked him. |
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