The party of former ‘rapper’ Balendra ‘Balen’ Shah won an absolute majority in the Nepalese House of Representatives, the electoral commission announced this Thursday when proclaiming the final results of the legislative elections on the 5th of this month.
With 182 of the 265 parliamentary seats obtained by the Independent National Party (RSP, centrist), “Bummer” Shah35 years old, defeated the head of government dismissed in September KP Sharma Oli in the elections, during the youth uprising and “Generation Z“.
‘Balen’ Shah should be appointed prime minister shortly.
Rise of “Generation Z”
The overwhelming victory of former ‘rapper’which already won the Kathmandu chamber nas 2022 municipal electionsmarks the rise of a new generation of leaders in the country.
Behind the RSP, the Nepali Congress Party, a pillar of the coalitions that have succeeded each other in power since the abolition of the monarchy in 2008, won just 38 of the 265 seats in the lower house of parliament, and the Communist Party of former prime minister KP Sharma Oli 25 seats.
According to institutional rules, the electoral commission must now validate the names proposed by each party to occupy the 110 vacancies allocated by the proportional system, which must happen by the 19th of this month.
Balendra Shah will still have to wait a few days before taking over the reins of the country.
“As soon as the commission submits the results to the President [nepalês, Ram Chandra Poudel, no poder desde 09 de setembro de 2025]he will ask the elected representatives of the RSP for the name of the candidate for the position of prime minister. Only then will he be formally appointed,” Nepalese constitutional law expert Bipin Adhikari told the France-Presse news agency.
Who is the former ‘rapper’ who will lead Nepal?
Popular musician, Balendra Shah established himself in 2022 already Kathmandu mayoral raceafter a lightning campaign conducted largely in social media.
Allied with the RSP of popular television presenter Rabi Lamichhane, he decided challenge legislative elections Sharma Oli74 years old, old school symbol rejected by the insurrection of September 8th and 9th, 2025.
Triggered by blocking social mediaaturned into a protest contra a elite corruption and the unemploymentforcing Sharma Oli resigningwith the clashes causing at least 77 deaths.
from to abolition of the monarchy in 2008o Nepal plunged into political instabilitymarked by several alliances between the same traditional leaders, who have exchanged power without managing to complete a single legislature.
A “Generation Z” and urban voters used as digital platforms to bypass traditional media e organize a mass mobilizationtransforming the former ‘rapper’ anti-corruption message in a viral phenomenon which last year ousted the classical parties from power, leaving the Himalayan nation under an interim government.
