US EditionAfter uprising, Nepal's Gen Z rush to register to vote
Daily voter registrations have quadrupled with nearly 400 people registering each day as Nepal’s youth seek to end corruption and economic hardship through upcoming elections.
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General elections will be held next March, after the fall of the government last month.
Nepal’s youth uprising explained: Decades of corruption reach a tipping point
Gen Z protesters inherited their grandparents’ hard-won democracy, then watched it decay together with their parentsOriginally published on Global VoicesGen Z protesters in front of Bharatpur Mahanagarpalika office, Nepal. September 2025. Photo by Himal Subedi, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). Weeks after police shot into a crowd of student demonstrators in September, killing at least 19 people, the smoke still hung over Kathmandu, Nepal’s …
‘Make the country better’: Nepal’s Gen Z rush to register to vote after uprising
In Nepal’s capital, young would-be voters line up enthusiastically to register for the first elections since deadly anti-corruption protests toppled the government, the worst unrest in decades. For many, it will be their first time participating in an election, and they see it as a chance to shape the future of their country of 30 million people, burdened by deep economic woes. At least 73 people were killed in the September 8-9 protests that le…
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After uprising, Nepal's Gen Z rush to register to vote
In Nepal's capital, young would-be voters line up enthusiastically to register for the first elections since deadly anti-corruption protests toppled the government, the worst unrest in decades.
Kathmandu - Would the young Nepalese have regained hope in politics? A month after the fall of the government took place on the street, the "Z-Generation" rushed to register on the voters' lists and take part in the legislative elections next March. That morning, the queue of future voters stretched to the outside of a small office of the electoral commission, in the capital Kathmandu. "The new government was built on the bodies of all those who…
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