Oli, who has only been in power for nine months, told lawmakers ahead of the no-confidence vote. Nepal’s president is now expected to ask political parties to try to form a new power-sharing government and nominate a consensus candidate for prime minister. Maoist chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal could become the new premier after the former rebels and main opposition Nepali Congress party said before the vote that they would try to form a new administration if Oli lost. A letter from the president’s office read out in parliament said the current cabinet would continue until a new government was formed, a process expected to take at least a week. Dahal, the country’s first prime minister after the Maoist insurgency ended in 2006, pulled his party from Oli’s coalition two weeks ago, leaving it without a majority.Nepal’s K.P. Sharma Oli resigned as prime minister on Sunday, minutes before facing a no-confidence motion in parliament he was certain to lose, plunging the impoverished, quake-hit nation into fresh turmoil. Oli was forced to quit after former Maoist rebels deserted his fractious, ruling coalition, accusing him of reneging on past deals and following deadly unrest over a divisive new constitution. “I have decided to open the road to elect a new prime minister in this parliament and presented my resignation to the president,”
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