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Nepal's Newly Elected Parliament Is Sworn in Months After a Youth-Led Revolt
The Rastriya Swatantra Party secured 182 of 275 seats in Nepal’s first election since a 2025 youth-led revolt that challenged corruption and governance.
- Nepal's newly elected parliament members were sworn in Thursday in KATHMANDU, with nearly two-thirds from the Rastriya Swatantra Party, which secured 182 of 275 seats.
- Last year's youth-led uprising against corruption and poor governance, triggered by a social media ban, ousted former Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli, leaving dozens dead and hundreds injured.
- The RSP won 125 directly elected seats plus 57 through proportional representation, vastly outpacing second-place Nepali Congress with 38 seats in Nepal's first election since the uprising.
- Balendra Shah is expected to be chosen as party leader Thursday and formally notify President Ram Chandra Poudel, who will appoint him prime minister before Shah takes the oath on Friday.
- Founded in 2022, the less-than-four-year-old RSP has displaced long-dominant parties including the Nepali Congress and positioned Shah to govern for five years with commanding parliamentary control.
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The new lawmakers, elected through the election held on March 5, arrived at the under-construction Parliament building inside Singhadurbar, the administrative capital of the Himalayan nation, in traditional attire.
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Nepal's newly elected parliament is sworn in months after a youth-led revolt
Nepal’s newly elected members of parliament have been sworn in, with nearly two-thirds of them from a political party that is less than four years old.
There is a legal provision for the senior member of Parliament to administer the oath to the MPs in the absence of an election for the Speaker.
Kathmandu. The swearing-in ceremony of the newly elected members of the House of Representatives has been scheduled for Thursday afternoon. The oath-taking ceremony will be held at 2 pm on Thursday, said Padma Prasad Pandey, General Secretary of the Federal Parliament Secretariat. The swearing-in ceremony will be held at the multipurpose hall of the under-construction Federal Parliament Building in Singha Durbar. Senior member Arjun Narsingh KC …
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