Karki is a former chief justice known for challenging the corrupt and the elite. Before she was selected as prime minister, she got the most votes in a poll on the group chat app Discord, organized by a youth advocacy group. That was days after mobs burned down government buildings and assaulted political leaders at their homes. UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (Shouting in non-English language).
Sushila Karki was appointed Nepal's new interim prime minister on Friday the first woman to hold the position. It came after violent demonstrations left at least 72 people dead and thousands injured, and forced Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli to step down from his post. The revolt by members of Gen Z, a term referring to people born roughly between 1997 and 2012 was triggered by a short-lived government-imposed social media ban and anger about widespread corruption and economic hardship in the Himalayan nation.
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Allred's proposal to "clean up Washington" is a 12-point anti-corruption plan that includes other populist priorities like ending gerrymandering, barring corporate PACs and a lifetime lobbying ban for lawmakers. The former congressman has personally pledged to refrain from trading individual stocks, to refuse corporate PAC money and to adhere to a lifetime lobbying ban. "Texans are paying more every day because politicians in Washington are looking out for themselves instead of us," Allred said in a statement to Axios.
The new legislation gives the prosecutor general power to control investigations led by the National Anticorruption Bureau and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, raising concerns of independence.
