Nepal's President Ramchandra Paudel has dissolved parliament and called for fresh elections following a week of deadly violence that culminated in the appointment of the country's first woman prime minister.

The statement from Paudel's office late on Friday came just hours after he announced former Chief Justice Sushila Karki would lead the country on an interim basis following the deadly "Gen Z"-led anti-graft protests that forced former prime minister KP Sharma Oli to resign.

According to the statement, the president has "dissolved the House of Representatives" and fixed March 5, 2026, for the elections.

Karki was appointed after two days of intense negotiations between Paudel, army chief Ashok Raj Sigdel and the protest leaders behind Nepal's worst upheaval in years, in which at leas

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