President Vidhya Devi Bhandari had invited Oli, Maoist chief Prachanda and the leader of the Nepali Congress party, Sher Bahadur Deuba, to discuss a new government, an aide to the president said. He is considered the frontrunner to succeed Oli, with the support of the Nepali Congress. Nepal’s president held talks with leaders of three main political parties on Monday to come up with a consensus candidate for prime minister and try to end revolving-door politics that has seen 23 governments in 26 years. Oli’s communist UML party said it would not support the Maoists’ bid for power after they had brought down Oli’s government. “The meeting is to tell them to move ahead unitedly,” the aide, Bhesh Raj Adhikari, told Reuters.

Source: Dhaka Tribune July 25, 2016 12:22 UTC