The next five years won’t be easy

RSP’s historic mandate meets a fractured world, an untested bureaucracy and a fragile economy.

Nepal has never quite done this before. A party barely three years old, born from the fury of a generation that flooded Kathmandu’s streets demanding accountability, is now poised to form one of the most powerful governments in the country’s post-federal history. The Rastriya Swatantra Party’s sweeping performance in the mid-term elections, triggered by the dissolution of parliament following Gen Z-led protests against governmental mismanagement, is by any measure a political earthquake. But as Nepalis know well, earthquakes do not come without aftershocks.