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Nepal sets March 5 vote, restrictions eased as interim gov’t takes charge

Girls sit on the steps of a temple, at Basantapur Durbar Square, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, following violent antigovernment protests, in Kathmandu, Nepal, on September 13, 2025 [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]

Nepal will vote in early March, says the president, as an interim government headed by the country’s first female prime minister takes charge after historic public protests.

Hours after appointing former chief justice and anticorruption figure Sushila Karki as the new head of government, President Ramchandra Paudel announced in a statement late on Friday that the 275-seat parliament has been dissolved and elections are fixed for March 5.

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