Balen won big. Now, what kind of power will he be?

It’s now crucial to ask what power doctrine emerges during his tenure.

The scale of the Rastriya Swatantra Party’s victory in the 2026 elections has answered one question in Nepali politics and opened a much harder one. Public anger has indeed turned into a decisive verdict. The electorate has punished an entire political generation and, through it, a whole way of governing. But that only sharpens the central question now facing Nepal: What will Balendra Shah do with such a sweeping victory?