Nepal’s prime minister resigned on Tuesday, one day after one of the most mortal repressions in protesters in years saw at least 19 people killed.
“I have renounced the position of Prime Minister with an effect as of today … to take more steps towards a political solution and the resolution of the problems,” said KP Sharma Oli in a letter to the president.
The protests, which began on Monday with the demands that the Government lifted a prohibition of social networks and addresses corruption, revived despite the applications become online.
At least 19 people were killed on Monday, and Amnesty International said that live ammunition had been used against protesters.
OLI, 73, began his fourth term last year after his communist party forged a coalition government with the Nepali Center of Center-Left in the Parliament often volatile.
Dissatisfaction has grown with political instability, corruption and slow economic development in the nation of the Himalayas of 30 million people.
People aged 15 to 40 represent almost 43 percent of the population, according to government statistics, while unemployment is around 10 percent and GDP per capita is only $ 1,447, according to the World Bank.
The country became a Federal Republic in 2008 after a civil war and a peace agreement that saw the Maoists taken to the government and the abolition of the monarchy.
Since then, a rotating door of the aged prime ministers and a culture of horses have fed public perceptions that the government is out of contact.
Since Friday, the videos that contrast the struggles of ordinary Nepalese with the children of politicians who flaunt luxury products and expensive vacations have become viral in Tiktok, which was not blocked.
