{"id":76589,"date":"2026-03-05T11:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/05\/nepal-election-2026-voting-balen-shah-sharma-oli"},"modified":"2026-03-06T00:25:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:25:05","slug":"nepal-votes-in-election-pitting-entrenched-old-guard-against-a-powerful-youth-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76589","title":{"rendered":"Nepal: voting closes in election pitting old guard against powerful youth movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early results may be released from Friday after first election since gen z protests forced Nepal\u2019s then-PM to quit<\/p>\n<p>Nearly six months after a wave of unprecedented gen Z-led protests <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/09\/nepal-protests-social-media-ban-lifted-gen-z-kathmandu\">forced Nepal\u2019s then prime minister to quit<\/a>, people have voted in a general election that is shaping up to be a high-stakes showdown between the entrenched old guard and a powerful youth movement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe voting process has been concluded peacefully and enthusiastically,\u201d said the chief election commissioner, Ram Prasad Bhandari. It appeared the turnout was only about 60%, according to initial estimates, the lowest in more than two decades.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/05\/nepal-election-2026-voting-balen-shah-sharma-oli\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early results may be released from Friday after first election since gen z protests forced Nepal\u2019s then-PM to quitNearly six months after a wave of unprecedented gen Z-led protests forced Nepal\u2019s then prime minister to quit, people have voted in a gene&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[241,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nepal","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76589"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76613,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76589\/revisions\/76613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}