Girija Prasad Koirala (born 1925) is the incumbent Prime Minister of Nepal. He has been elected Prime Minister of Nepal six times, from 1991 to 1994, 1998 to 1999, 2000 to 2001, and from 2006 and 2007. He was the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Nepal since 1959, when his brother BP Koirala and the Nepali Congress party swept the country's first democratic elections. He is also the President of the Nepali Congress Party and leader of the Eight Party Alliance (EPA). Koirala has been active in politics for over sixty years and started his career as a labor leader in the Jute mills of his hometown Biratnagar.
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