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Nepal’s Opposition vowed on Saturday to continue daily street protests to press King Gyanendra to set up a government of national unity after the resignation of Royalist PM Surya Bahadur Thapa.
King Gyanendra said he was ready for talks with the Opposition and promised to appoint a replacement with a ‘‘clean image’’, according to the Royal Palace. But that did not satisfy the Opposition, which has been up in arms since Gyanendra fired an elected government in 2002, replaced it with a Royalist administration and postponed elections.
‘‘The PM should be chosen, not by the King, but by the Parliament and political parties,’’ said Ram Sharan Mahat, a member of the Nepali Congress party. — (Reuters)
