The polls follow last September’s youth-led movement against corruption, misgovernance, and a patronage-driven economy long associated with an ageing political class.

The vote is viewed as a corrective measure — an opportunity to break Nepal’s cycle of revolving-door politics that has plagued the country for decades and to create conditions for implementing the demands of the youth movement.

Those demands — accountability, clean governance and economic reform — resonate well beyond the youth protesters and across the broader population.

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