Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev. , born the July 7th 1947, is the king of the Nepal since June 2001.

In February 2005 it seizes the power and dissolves the elected Parliament, but in April 2006, under the popular pressure, the Parliament is restored. Consequently, its capacities were seriously started and it has only one statute ceremonial today.

Biography

As a second wire of the prince (then king) Mahendra, the Gyanendra young person is declared king for two months (1950 - 1951) when the remainder of its family is in exile in India, but is not internationally recognized as tel. His/her grandfather Tribhuvan goes up on the throne little time afterwards, when the family Rânâ concedes the capacity to him.

Fifty years later, according to the official thesis, its nephew Dipendra, taken of an access of madness, assassinates all his family, including his father the king Birendra (the brother of Gyanendra) before giving himself death. Gyanendra becomes thus king again.

As a king, he seeks to exert an active control on the government, while returning twice in three years the Prime Minister elected and while naming in the place a government of his choice. If his/her Birendra brother had conceded a Constitutional monarchy in 1990, while agreeing to limit the role of the king in the government, the interventions of Gyanendra out of this constitutional role cause a dissatisfaction increasing with the Nepalese people. The 2005, Gyanendra seizes the power again, by issuing the state of emergency and shows the Prime Minister in station, Sher Bahadur Deuba, and its government, not to have succeeded in organizing parliamentary elections nor to have restored peace in the country, in full civil war directed by the Maoists.

A few months later, Sher Bahadur Deuba is washed suspicions of corruption which weighed on him and the state of emergency is raised. Nevertheless, even if Gyanendra promises that peace and the democratic institutions will be restored in the three years, the repression of the dissidents, as well as the control of the journalists and activists of the human rights continue in spite of the warning statements of the international organizations.

In April 2006 starts a general strike in favor of the democracy to make fold the king, this one ends up yielding to the pressure of the street, D founds the Parliament in its rights the April 24th.

The April 27th, it names Girija Prasad Koirala, the chief of the principal party of opposition, at the post of Prime Minister. During its nomination in front of the members of Parliament, this last does not hide its intention to convene a constituent Assembly, with an aim of deciding fate of monarchy.

During next May, the Parliament withdraws some of its prerogatives to him and not least: such command of the army or the nomination of the government. The crowned character of the monarch is even put at bottom: it will be from now on liable to continuations in front of the courts like any citizen. Moreover, it will have to discharge its taxes like any Nepalese.

Additional details

Other articles

• List of the kings of Nepal
• List of the current leaders

External bond

• genealogical Information on the king of Nepal.

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