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For the first time in 20 years, Nepalis will go to the ballot box on May 14 to elect local officials, marking a significant step in consummating the Constitution passed in September 2015. But they will do so without the consent of the ethnic groups from Nepal’s southern plains, the Madhesis, who protested their under-representation in the Constitution and government with a six-month border blockade in 2015 and 2016. Their protest cut off trade with India, prevented essential supplies like petrol, gas cooking bottles, and medicine from entering the country, and crippled the Nepali economy. When Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal announced the election date on February 20, he initiated a crucial countdown for Nepali democracy to forge ahead. Successful local elections this spring will pave the way for provincial and national elections in the fall, marking a return to the democratic process after two decades of upheaval – a ten-year civil war, and a drawn-out transition period. As mandated by the Constitution, all three levels of elections must be conducted by January 21, 2018. “These elections are historic because they have the real potential to reduce political marginalization for the first time in Nepal and to return government to all of its people,” said Dr. George Varughese, the Nepal Country Representative for the Asia Foundation.

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