Six months after violent protests forced KP Sharma Oli to resign, nearly 19 million Nepalis head to the polls amid party splits, populist challengers, and fears of foreign meddling
Nepal is heading to a general election on Thursday, six months after sudden and violent protests rocked the Himalayan nation and led to the resignation of then-Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s government. Nearly 19 million Nepalis will vote to elect a 275‑member parliament, with more than 3,400 candidates contesting – at least a quarter of them under the age of 40.
If everything had gone as planned back in September 2025, Oli, who leads the prominent Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist), known as CPN‑UML, would have handed over the prime minister’s post to his coalition partner Sher Bahadur Deuba, president of the Nepali Congress party, under a power‑sharing deal struck between the two forces in July 2024, when the previous elections were held.
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