{"id":32355,"date":"2021-05-22T15:41:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T06:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/22\/nepal-calls-new-elections-amid-worsening-covid-outbreak"},"modified":"2021-05-22T15:41:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T06:41:54","slug":"nepal-calls-new-elections-amid-worsening-covid-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32355","title":{"rendered":"Nepal calls new elections amid worsening Covid outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Bhandari dissolves parliament after declaring that neither the prime minister nor opposition have a majority to form a new government<\/p>\n<p>Nepal\u2019s parliament has been dissolved for the second time in five months and new elections called for November as the Himalayan country battled political turmoil alongside the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>President Bidhya Devi Bhandari made the order on Saturday after declaring that neither Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli nor Sher Bahadur Deuba, leader of the opposition Nepali Congress, had a majority to form a new government.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/22\/nepal-calls-new-elections-amid-worsening-covid-outbreak\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bhandari dissolves parliament after declaring that neither the prime minister nor opposition have a majority to form a new governmentNepal\u2019s parliament has been dissolved for the second time in five months and new elections called for Novembe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[241,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nepal","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32356,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32355\/revisions\/32356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}