00:01Voters cast ballots in Bhaktapur near Kathmandu on Thursday, as armed police guarded the Temple
00:07Line Square during a general election seen as a test of Nepal's political stability.
00:12Voting started at 7 a.m. local time and closes at 5 p.m., with counting scheduled to start
00:18soon after.
00:19About 19 million voters are eligible to elect 275 members of parliament, with 165 chosen
00:27via first-past-the-post and 110-through-proportional representation.
00:34Voters cast ballots in Bhaktapur near Kathmandu on Thursday, as the government will make a
00:52new government.
00:53The kind of change we want in Nepal, especially the young generation, are very mature.
00:57The kind of change we want in Nepal, especially the young generation, are very mature.
00:57We are very much against corruption.
01:00We are very much for us, for the people, the working class.
01:04So yeah, that pretty much sums up what we want.
01:08Rapper-turned-politician and former Kathmandu mayor Balendra Shah, a front-runner for prime
01:14minister, also casted his vote for the general election.
01:17If Shah takes power, it would mark a dramatic rise for a man who began in the public eye with
01:23rap music, critical of the establishment, and turned his popularity into high political
01:29office.
01:30The election comes six months after youth-led protests over corruption, and limited freedoms
01:35force then-Prime Minister KP Sharma Ali to resign.
01:39It is expected to reshape Nepal's political landscape, though it remains unclear if new mandates
01:45will bring lasting governance reforms.
01:48the election comes six months after youth, and even a half of the election came to her
01:55Therefore, the time has been reached by the women's response to the women's response to the
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