After marathon meetings that began late Thursday (September 11, 2025), Nepal’s President Ram Chandra Poudel on Friday (September 12, 2025) agreed to dissolve Parliament, a key demand of the Gen Z protesters who brought down the government of K.P. Sharma Oli on September 9. The President named former Chief Justice Sushila Karki to lead an interim government.
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First woman Chief Justice Sushila Karki took the oath and became the country’s first woman Prime Minister on Friday (September 12, 2025).
Even after Gen Z campaigners agreed on Ms. Karki’s name as the leader of the next government, a dispute over the dissolution of Parliament had delayed the announcement.
‘House dissolution non-negotiable’
