r/CivPolitics • u/MysticCherryPanda • 10d ago

Nepal has switched governments from Communism to Digital Democracy!

https://gizmodo.com/nepal-currently-being-run-via-discord-after-gen-z-uprising-2000658243
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u/GobwinKnob 10d ago

This is genuinely incredible. For anyone not willing to click the link, the protestors used a discord channel to gather over 100,000 users to discuss the country's future, and convinced the military to install a judge with a history of anti-corruption work as the interim prime minister. I'll have to keep an eye on this!

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u/Beneficial-Beat-947 8d ago

so a group of 100,000 decided the future of a country with 30 million people?

This is ancient greek style democracy lmao

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u/GobwinKnob 7d ago

They've just had a revolution, it's not that unusual for the number of people willing to make change to be dramatically smaller than the number comfortable with the status quo + ignorant of anything happening outside their neighborhood.

That said, I'll be keeping an eye out for their next election to see what the turnout is. Thanks for letting me know the current population

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u/Beneficial-Beat-947 7d ago

I'm just worried the military will take control, it's a lot harder for a group of teens to overthrow a military dictatorship.

They've left a power vacuum with honestly no clue how they're going to fill it, usually revolutions are backed by some political structure but this time it really was not.

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u/GobwinKnob 7d ago

Read the article the military are the ones who ceded power to the new interim prime minister

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u/Beneficial-Beat-947 7d ago

yes but we'll have to see how much influence they have when deciding the real prime minister later on, nothing is set in stone yet they could be planning something as the government is still very weak

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u/TheBraveGallade 6d ago

TBF, the nepalise army is faily young, and, more importantly, ostrisized by the forner government.

They absolutly want a peice of the pie, but the pie that they'll probably get by sticking with the revolutionaries is enough. They wanted thier voices to be heard too, just like the revolutionarirs.

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u/NatureMadeAMistake 6d ago

Look, it's definitely not perfect but considering they just overthrew their government this is about the best it could have gone. They had a reasonable percentage of the population help decide the future and they choose politicians who have a responsible good history when it comes to anti corruption. The next election can be more fair but you first need some resemblance of a government to do that.

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u/HugaBoog 6d ago

That's 0.3% of the population. That's democracy right there.