{"id":18963,"date":"2025-09-13T03:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T03:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18963"},"modified":"2025-09-13T03:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T03:05:16","slug":"nepal-goes-to-polls-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18963","title":{"rendered":"Nepal goes to polls in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Nepal&#8217;s parliament was dissolved late Friday and the country will hold elections in March, the president&#8217;s office said, after a new interim prime minister was appointed in the wake of deadly anti-government protests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the recommendation of the prime minister, the parliament has been dissolved. The election date is March 5, 2026,&#8221; Kiran Pokharel, press advisor to the president, told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Nepal&#8217;s former chief justice Sushila Karki was sworn in Friday as the country&#8217;s prime minister to lead a six-month transition to elections, after deadly anti-corruption protests ousted the government.<\/p>\n<p>The previous prime minister quit Tuesday as parliament was set ablaze.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I, Sushila Karki&#8230; take an oath in the name of the country and the people to fulfil my duty as the prime minister,&#8221; the 73-year-old Karki, Nepal&#8217;s first woman chief justice, said as she was sworn into office by President Ram Chandra Paudel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Congratulations! We wish you success, wish the country success,&#8221; Paudel said to Karki after the small ceremony in the presidential palace, attended by diplomats and some former leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Parliament was later dissolved, and elections were set for March 5, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Himalayan nation of 30 million people was plunged into chaos this week after security forces tried to crush rallies by young anti-corruption protesters.<\/p>\n<p>At least 51 people were killed in the worst violence since the end of a civil war and the abolition of the monarchy in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The military took back control of the streets on Wednesday, enforcing a curfew.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal&#8217;s parliament was dissolved late Friday and the country will hold elections in March, the president&#8217;s office said, after a new interim prime minister was appointed in the wake of deadly anti-government protests. &#8220;On the recommendation of the prime minister, the parliament has been dissolved. The election date is March 5, 2026,&#8221; Kiran Pokharel, press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}