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Balen Shah

Prime Minister of Nepal, 2026 to present

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A rapper and structural engineer who became Kathmandu’s first independent mayor and, after the 2025 Gen Z protests, led the Rastriya Swatantra Party to a landslide win in 2026.

Balen Shah sits in the right-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: slightly free market and slightly authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly anti-establishment on institutions, strongly nationalist on nation and leaning tech-optimist on technology.

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Where Balen Shah sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomySlightly free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authoritySlightly authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureSlightly traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationStrongly nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentLeaning nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceSlightly strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsStrongly anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionSlightly religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismLeaning non-interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

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People furthest from Balen Shah

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Political views closest to Balen Shah

SovereigntismInsists that national institutions, not international bodies, should have the final say.96%Right-wing populismCasts politics as ordinary people against elites, mixing nationalism, tradition and…91%PeronismAn Argentine movement blending labor rights, welfare and economic nationalism around a…91%IsolationismKeeps the country out of foreign alliances and wars and puts domestic concerns first.90%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.