{"id":43046,"date":"2026-03-09T03:04:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=43046"},"modified":"2026-03-09T03:04:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:04:29","slug":"nepal-rapper-led-party-heads-for-landslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=43046","title":{"rendered":"Nepal rapper-led party heads for landslide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Nepal&#8217;s centrist RSP party of rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah had secured a majority in the direct parliamentary elections, partial official results showed Sunday, and was heading for a landslide according to official trends.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old&#8217;s Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) was also leading in the proportional representation vote, according to results declared and election commission trends.<\/p>\n<p>The vote was the first since deadly September 2025 youth anti-corruption protests toppled the government.<\/p>\n<p>Shah himself had on Saturday defeated the veteran four-time prime minister KP Sharma Oli \u2014\u00a0whose Marxist-led government was ousted in the violence last year \u2014\u00a0in his own seat.<\/p>\n<p>His victory over the 74-year-old Oli, and his rise from the capital&#8217;s mayor to potential prime minister, marks one of the most dramatic results in recent Nepali politics.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Elections on Thursday chose a new 275-member House of Representatives, the lower house of parliament, with 185 seats chosen directly, and 110 by a proportional representation vote.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal&#8217;s centrist RSP party of rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah had secured a majority in the direct parliamentary elections, partial official results showed Sunday, and was heading for a landslide according to official trends. The 35-year-old&#8217;s Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) was also leading in the proportional representation vote, according to results declared and election commission trends. The [&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-43046","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\/43046","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=43046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}