Nepal prepares for the national election, which was necessitated following the collapse of KP Sharma Oli’s government in the height of Gen-Z rebellion (youth uprising) in September 2025, which is scheduled for 5 March. The Himalayan nation conducted the last general election in 2022 (next national polls were due in 2027), but due to the dissolution of Nepal’s lower house of Parliament last year by President Ram Chandra Poudel, the electoral process began under the patronage of an interim government, installed under the leadership of retired Supreme Court judge Sushila Karki on 12 September. The Hindu majority nation of over 29 million people will witness over 3,400 (including 390 women) electoral candidates representing 68 political parties as well as independents vying for 165 seats in the 275-member House of Representatives.

At least four former Prime Ministers remain in the fray, where three mayors are also expected to try their luck in the electoral battles. Deposed premier Oli, 74, who leads Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) will face electoral challenges from Balendra Shah (who recently resigned as Kathmandu metropolitan city mayor and joined Rastriya Swatantra Party) in Jhapa-5 Parliamentary constituency of eastern Nepal. Balendra, 35, an engineer turned rapper turned........

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