The world’s largest democratic exercise has ended, with a twist. Some 642mn Indians cast their votes in the seven-phase, multi-week poll in the midst of a heatwave. The Bharatiya Janata party leader, Narendra Modi, announced on Tuesday, as expected, that he would come back for a third consecutive term — the first such hat-trick since independence prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru. But he returns humbled.
世界上规模最大的民主选举活动结束了，但却出现了一些意外。约6.42亿印度人在热浪中参加了为期数周的七阶段投票。印度人民党(BJP)领导人纳伦德拉•莫迪(Narendra Modi)周二宣布，他将连任第三届——这是自独立总理贾瓦哈拉尔•尼赫鲁(Jawaharlal Nehru)以来首次上演帽子戏法。但他回来时却很惭愧。
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