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| Nepalese prime minister resigns | |
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| Nepal's interim Prime Minister, Girija Prasad Koirala, has announced that he has resigned. | |
| Correspondents say the move paves the way for the former rebel leader, Prachanda, who heads the Maoist party, to succeed Mr Koirala. | Correspondents say the move paves the way for the former rebel leader, Prachanda, who heads the Maoist party, to succeed Mr Koirala. |
| The Maoists emerged as the biggest party in elections in April to a new constituent assembly. | The Maoists emerged as the biggest party in elections in April to a new constituent assembly. |
| The Maoists signed a peace deal in 2006, ending a decade of civil war in which thousands of people were killed. | The Maoists signed a peace deal in 2006, ending a decade of civil war in which thousands of people were killed. |
| 'Unfit for office' | |
| "I announce in this house that I have abandoned the post of the prime minister," Mr Koirala told the constituent assembly on Thursday. | |
| Prachanda could well become prime minister | |
| Mr Koirala has been struggling to keep his administration together after Maoist ministers submitted their resignations last week. | |
| His interim cabinet has been beset by bitter disagreements. | |
| The former Maoist rebels have accused Mr Koirala of clinging to his post after his party came a poor second in the April elections. They say the 83-year-old prime minister is unfit for office. | |
| The political instability in Nepal has been exacerbated by constitutional changes pushed through in December which did not clarify how power would be divided between the president and prime minister once the new constituent assembly had abolished the monarchy. | |
| In recent weeks it was finally agreed that the president would be largely ceremonial but would also be commander-in-chief of the army. | |
| The BBC's Charles Haviland in Nepal says the political infighting has meant that the interim government has proved toothless in the face of a new wave of strikes over rising fuel prices and a growing tendency towards social anarchy. |