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Nepal's rapper-turned-politician looks set for win
Bangkok Post
|March 08, 2026
Nepal’s centrist party of rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah looked set to win by a landslide in parliamentary polls, according to Election Commission trends yesterday, but with counting still far to go.
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The high-stakes parliamentary election on Thursday came six months after deadly anti-corruption protests toppled the government last year, when at least 77 people were killed.
The September 2025 youth-led demonstrations, under a loose Gen Z banner, began over a brief social media ban but quickly tapped into broader grievances over corruption and a struggling economy.
According to early trends issued by the Election Commission yesterday, 35-year-old Shah's Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) was on track to win a potential two-thirds supermajority in the 275-member House of Representatives, the lower house of parliament.
"Looking at the trend, the Rastriya Swatantra Party has taken the lead in many places and has won several seats," commission spokesperson Narayan Prasad Bhattarai told AFP.
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