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Follow Nepal's historic federal elections with us.
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News
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Oli has effectively become a caretaker prime minister and will need to make way for a new government. But is the political drama prudent in the midst of a pandemic?
Features
5 min read
2 percent elected to head rural or urban municipalities, 1 percent elected to head wards
Opinions
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The campaigns revealed that either the idea of provinces hasn’t yet filtered down to the street level, or the federal project has been deliberately weakened
Features
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Despite the outsized impact that migrant workers have on Nepal, they are still unable to vote in elections as Nepal has no provisions for absentee voting.
Features
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The chronic in-fighting between Oli and Dahal has reached a point where a party split looks imminent
Perspectives
6 min read
Candidates for the local level elections are advertising more and more on social media, especially Facebook, presenting the Election Commission with new problems it must account for.
Perspectives
10 min read
Patriarchy alone is not a sufficient explanation for the lack of women in candidate selection for the recently held local elections.
