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Rapper, Balendra Shah Set To Become Nepal’s Prime Minister After Election Landslide

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Nepal is close to completing the counting of votes from its parliamentary elections, with about two percent of ballots still left to be tallied. Early results indicate that the centrist Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), led by rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah, is heading for a sweeping victory. Shah, 35, who rose to prominence after serving as mayor of the capital city, Kathmandu, is now widely expected to become Nepal’s next prime minister, marking one of the most remarkable political turnarounds in the country’s recent history. The March 5 election was the first national vote since youth-led anti-corruption protests last September turned violent and forced the collapse of the previous government. In a major upset, Shah defeated former four-time prime minister KP Sharma Oli in his own constituency. Oli’s Marxist-led government had been removed during the unrest last year. Throughout the campaign period, videos showing voters mimicking Shah’s dance moves went viral on social media, adding to his unconventional but popular campaign style. The election was held to fill the 275 seats in Nepal’s House of Representatives, the lower chamber of parliament. Of these, 165 members are elected directly while the remaining 110 are chosen through proportional representation. Official results show that RSP secured 125 out of the 165 seats decided through direct voting. In the proportional representation category, the party also holds the largest share of votes, with about 200,000 ballots yet to be counted. “We are close to finishing the counting now,” Election Commission spokesman Narayan Prasad Bhattarai told AFP. “We will have the final number of PR seats soon.” If the current trend holds, RSP could win around 176 seats in total, giving it a strong majority but still slightly short of the 183 seats required for a supermajority in parliament. Final seat allocations may still shift slightly depending on how votes for smaller parties that fail to reach the required threshold are handled. According to constitutional law expert Bipin Adhikari, Nepal may still need more than a week before a new prime minister is officially appointed. “Once the commission submits its report to the president, he will call on RSP lawmakers to name the prime ministerial candidate. Only after that will his appointment take place,” said Adhikari, a professor at Kathmandu University. Meanwhile, Nepali Congress, the largest party in the previous parliament, won 18 seats in the direct elections, while the Marxist party led by Oli secured nine seats.

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Nepal Gets First Female PM after Deadly Unrest

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Nepal’s former Supreme Court chief justice Sushila Karki has become the country’s interim prime minister after deadly anti-corruption protests ousted the government. Karki, 73, was sworn in during a brief ceremony, becoming the first woman to lead the impoverished Himalayan nation after a deal was reached with the protest leaders. More than 50 people were killed in clashes with riot police during this week’s mass protests sparked by a ban on social media platforms. The ban was lifted on Monday – but by then protests had swelled into a mass movement. Angry crowds set fire to parliament and government buildings in the capital Kathmandu on Tuesday, forcing Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli to resign. Earlier on Friday, President Ram Chandra Poudel’s press adviser confirmed to the BBC that Karki would take the oath of office in the evening. The agreement between the president and the protest leaders was reached after days of consultations. Legal experts were also involved. Parliament is expected to be dissolved shortly, and the new government is tasked with conducting general elections within six months. Karki is widely regarded as a person of clean image, and is being supported by student leaders from the so-called “Gen Z” to lead the interim government. On Tuesday, she visited the protest site in Kathmandu where 19 people were killed in clashes with police the day before. She also met some of the injured who were being treated in hospital. Karki was born in a family with close contacts with the Koirala political dynasty from the country’s largest democratic party Nepali Congress, and later married the then leader party Durga Subedi. She has said that her husband’s support played a major role in her journey from a lawyer to Nepal’s chief justice in 2016. But Karki has not been free from controversy, having even faced an impeachment incident during her nearly 11-month tenure as chief justice. Nepal’s army has deployed patrols on the streets of Kathmandu, as the country reels from its worst unrest in decades. The protests were triggered by the government’s decision last week to ban 26 social media platforms, including WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook – but they soon widened to embody much deeper discontent with Nepal’s political elite. In the weeks before the ban, a “nepo kid” campaign, spotlighting the lavish lifestyles of politicians’ children and allegations of corruption, had taken off on social media. And while the social media ban was hastily lifted on Monday night, the protests had by that stage gained unstoppable momentum.

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