{"id":41469,"date":"2026-03-10T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/explorecatholic.nl\/nieuws\/church-welcomes-nepal-election-landslide-as-new-party-sweeps-out-old-guard\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T13:21:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:21:00","slug":"church-welcomes-nepal-election-landslide-as-new-party-sweeps-out-old-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explorecatholic.nl\/en\/nieuws\/church-welcomes-nepal-election-landslide-as-new-party-sweeps-out-old-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"Church welcomes Nepal election landslide as new party sweeps out old guard"},"content":{"rendered":"

KATHMANDU, Nepal \u2014 Catholic leaders in Nepal have welcomed the landslide election victory of a new political party backed by the country\u2019s young generation, which decimated the traditional political establishment.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a mandate against all the misconduct of politicians and political parties,\u201d Father Silas Bogati, apostolic administrator of the Apostolic Vicariate of Nepal, told EWTN News on March 9.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis overwhelming change was expected as people were fed up with the leaders playing musical chairs,\u201d Bogati said of the result of the March 5 election in the Himalayan nation.<\/p>\n

Father Silas Bogati celebrates Mass at a Missionaries of Charity convent at Mitra Park in Kathmandu in August 2025. | Credit: Anto Akkara<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nepal has had 14 governments<\/a> since 2008, when it became a republic after abolishing the Hindu monarchy, with none of the three main political parties winning a clear majority.<\/p>\n

The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), or National Independent Party, has won 125 of the 165 directly elected seats in Parliament in the March 5 vote, according to Nepal\u2019s Election Commission.<\/p>\n

The official declaration of the full results has been delayed as the commission must still allot the additional 110 seats in Parliament, which are decided on the basis of a simultaneous second vote for proportional representation.<\/p>\n

Under the leadership of Balendra Shah, the RSP\u2019s 35-year-old prime ministerial candidate, the party rode a wave of public anger against the traditional political class. Shah, a rapper turned politician, has been mayor of Kathmandu since 2022 and took on a leading role in the RSP ahead of the election.<\/p>\n

From social media ban to political upheaval<\/h2>\n

The youth leadership of the September 2025 bloody uprising<\/a> that led to the overthrow of the government endorsed Shah as the face of the new political movement.<\/p>\n

Following police firing on youth protesters rallying against a social media ban by the government on Sept. 8, killing at least 19 of them, Kathmandu and other parts of Nepal plunged into chaos.<\/p>\n

Widespread anarchy and arson left at least 76 dead overall and even the Parliament building was torched, while Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli resigned. The interim government led by Sushila Karki, a former chief justice, restored order and called for the elections.<\/p>\n

The massive victory of Shah, with 68,348 votes against four-time Prime Minister Oli\u2019s 18,734 votes in the Jhapa-5 constituency, symbolized the generational change in Nepal, the Himalayan Times reported<\/a>, citing the Election Commission of Nepal.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, it is quite a change \u2026 lots of people are shell shocked for this overwhelming change,\u201d Bogati pointed out.<\/p>\n

Compared with RSP\u2019s two-thirds majority, Nepali Congress has won 17 seats while Oli\u2019s Communist Party has eight seats.<\/p>\n

\u2018Great hope for the Christians\u2019<\/h2>\n

\u201cWe are very happy with the results. For the first time, we will have a government with a clear majority to address people\u2019s aspirations. That will be certainly good for the people,\u201d Gyan Rai, a retired pilot and head of the Nepal chapter of the Catholic lay network Couples for Christ, told EWTN News.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe political leadership has shifted out of the traditional political leaders and the youth takes over now,\u201d Rai added.<\/p>\n

Bogati was optimistic that the new government \u201cwill bring in end of corruption, employment opportunities, and better governance, and for the Catholic Church freedom of religion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though the Catholic Church was the first Christian body to establish a modern presence in Nepal, when missionaries arrived in 1950 on the invitation of the government to open schools, it has remained relatively small, with fewer than 10,000 members. Evangelical and Protestant churches, by contrast, number over 1 million adherents in the country of nearly 30 million people, after conversion restrictions were eased following the 2006 declaration of Nepal as a secular state.<\/p>\n

\u201cTremendous enthusiasm is here over the youth leadership taking over the reign of the country. The election results also hold out great hope for the Christians,\u201d Chirendra Satyal, one of the prominent Catholic converts in Nepal, hailing from the royal family of Hindu priests, told EWTN News.<\/p>\n

Father Silas Bogati, apostolic administrator of the Apostolic Vicariate of Nepal, sits with Chirendra Satyal, a prominent Catholic convert, in Kathmandu in August 2025. | Credit: Anto Akkara<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), or National People\u2019s Party, \u201cthat wanted to bring back and reestablish Nepal as a Hindu kingdom \u2026 has lost ground further this time. It has won just one seat,\u201d Satyal pointed out.<\/p>\n

Further, RPP\u2019s 14 seats under the proportional quota in the 2022 Parliament will come down to five due to a decline in the votes the party has polled, Satyal said, citing latest reports on the continuing vote count.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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