Political historian Aditya Adhikari told the AFP, the merger was a "rare union" between two sides with starkly different backgrounds.
Nepal's newly-formed leftist government has merged with the Maoist party, further unifying the left coalition in the country and forming a super-bloc in the region, officials announced on Tuesday.
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"This is an agreement to merge, but there are other issues we need to conclude before we completely unify," senior Maoist leader Narayan Kaji Shrestha told the AFP, adding that the transition process will take at least a month.
The announcement comes after the Communist Party of Nepal's Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, who won nearly two-thirds of the votes in the elections held late last year, was sworn in as prime minister.
Observers view the recent move as the beginning of a new era for country's politics which saw itself mired in a civil war in the 1990's.
The Maoists previously fought government forces in a bitter civil war to overthrow Nepal's 240-year-old Hindu monarchy, which claimed nearly 16,000 lives.
In 2006, the Maoist and the then government reached a peace deal effectively ending the civil war and paving way for democratic elections. With former Guerrilla leader, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, also the chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal, becoming country's first post-war prime minister.
On January 2007, a new interim constitution was introduced, with Maoists holding 84 seats in the 329-member interim legislature.
Political historian Aditya Adhikari told the AFP, the merger was a "rare union" between two sides with starkly different backgrounds.
"If they manage to stick together it will change the future of Nepal's politics," said Adhikari, who authored a book on the history of Nepal's Maoist struggle, "The Bullet and the Ballot Box."
"But they will likely function as a coalition or two factions within a party, negotiating power-sharing," Adhikari said.
Líder do Partido Marxista-Leninista e Primeiro Ministro Khadga Prasad Oli

Os dois maiores partidos comunistas no Parlamento nepalês chegaram a um acordo para se unirem na segunda-feira, depois de longas negociações na cidade de Baluwatar.

Os partidos comunistas marxistas-leninistas e maoístas, o primeiro e o terceiro maiores partidos na Câmara dos Representantes do Nepal, respectivamente, já foram parceiros da coalizão. Combinados, as duas partes serão dez assentos de uma maioria de dois terços, o que lhes permitiria alterar a constituição. O acordo deles assume a forma de um acordo de sete pontos.

Em primeiro lugar, os líderes das duas partes dividirão igualmente o termo primordial. Em segundo lugar, embora um acordo geral tenha sido alcançado, o detalhe da plataforma do partido será decidido em uma convenção do partido juntado. Além disso, eles planejam chamar o partido do Partido Comunista do Nepal, embora a viabilidade disso tenha sido questionada porque já havia um partido sob esse nome.

Os maoístas só entraram na política em 2007. Antes de um acordo de paz em 2006, fez do Nepal um estado totalmente democrático, os maoístas lutaram em uma insurgência armada para derrubar a monarquia.