For the region and beyond

Nepal’s institutions have a historic opportunity to make Nepali democracy a model.

If the Supreme Court strikes down Prime Minister KP Oli’s dissolution of Parliament as unconstitutional, it will have effects beyond Nepal. Indeed, because of the machinations over the last few years of the leaders of established democracies, liberal democracy’s stock across the world is at an all-time low. The Supreme Court has the opportunity to make Nepal a bright spot in an otherwise diminished community of democratic countries.