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Historically, the Nepali Congress, a moderate socialist
party, has advocated constitutional monarchy instead of absoᆳ
lute monarchy. Recently, the party has accepted the idea of a
republic. On September 25, 2007, the Nepali Congress Party
and the Nepali Congress Democrat unified and became a single
party, the Nepali Congress. Girija Prasad Koirala, Krishna
Prasad Bhattarai, and Sher Bahadur Deuba are the three senior
leaders, with Koirala serving as the party's president.
The Communist Party of Nepal (MarxistᆳLeninist) was
established in 1949. In the 1960s and 1970s, the party splintered
into a number of different factions, eventually becoming the
Communist Party of Nepal (Unified MarxistᆳLeninist, a modᆳ
erate sector) and the Communist Party of Nepal (Unity Center,
a more radical sector). The CPNᆳUC divided again and formed
another party, the CPN (Maoist). Today, the Communist Party
consists of the CPN (UML), the CPN (Maoist), and several
smaller Communist groups. Five of these smaller groups have
representation in Parliament.
With the new constitution in 1990, which installed multiᆳ
party democracy, the royalist party was formed. The Rashtriya
Prajatantra Party, or RPP, became the third most important
group in parliamentary politics during the 1990s. This proᆳ
monarchy party was created from the elite panchayat system.
In 1997, the RPP split and a faction joined a coalition govᆳ
ernment with the CPN (UML). Those left behind in the RPP
allied themselves with the Nepali Congress and dismantled the
UMLᆳRPP, making two separate royalist coalition parties. In
1998, the parties unified after a bad showing in the elections
that year, but the party split again into the Rashtriya Janashakti
Party, or RJP. Today the RPP and the RJP are both represented
in Parliament.
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