Back-to-back elections also led to low voter turnout

People say why give the same old parties another chance when they have failed to perform, repeatedly.

Nepal, on Sunday, voted to elect members to the House of Representatives and provincial assemblies. The second general elections after the promulgation of the Constitution of Nepal have been held amid wide discontentment among people with the mainstream political parties. As the country was voting, Binod Ghimire from the Post caught up with Sanjeev Humagain, a faculty member of the PhD programme for Political Science and International Relations at the Tribhuvan University, to discuss public mood and post-election scenario. Here are excerpts.