A wind of change is blowing

But voters are sceptical whether the new parties and leaders will do anything different because the parties and even some independent candidates have repeatedly tricked the public with their false promises, analysts say.

The year 2022 was the year of elections—it witnessed polls for all three tiers of government in two phases. The local elections in May and the federal and provincial elections in November, the second time Nepalis went to vote after the country went federal, contained these in their storylines: low voter turnout, strong emergence of new parties, new generation of voters, and a key message to the traditional parties to correct their course.