Landslide win for Nepal’s Reds


IT may feel like Nepal’s umpteenth election, but the polls that closed earlier this month were actually the first set of proper parliamentary elections in years.

The fact that the country has changed prime ministers at the rate of once a year since a republic was declared in May 2008 has certainly lent its democracy an air of instability.

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