Ram Baran Yadav, Nepal’s first president, faces an uphill battle to bring the country’s fueding parties together in a coalition government.
Earlier this week the Communist party of Nepal (Maoist), which holds the majority of seats in parliament, quit power-sharing discussions because its candidate for president was defeated.
Al Jazeera’s Subina Shrestha reports from Kathmandu, on Nepal’s struggle to function without a working government.
