Ram Chandra Paudel has been elected as the brand new Nepal president. He secured 33 thousand eight hundred and a couple of electoral votes whilst his rival Subash Chandra Nembwang secured 15 thousand five hundred and 18 electoral votes, consistent with Nepal`s Election Commission.
Further, consistent with Nepal’s Election Commission, 313 participants of the federal parliament took element withinside the vote casting whilst 518 participants from the Province assemblies additionally participated withinside the electoral technique to choose the following president.
The vote casting passed off at Nepal’s Parliament constructing in New Baneshwar, Kathmandu. The Election Commission withinside the Himalayan country had installation separate polling stations for federal parliamentarians and the Province Assembly participants on the Hall.
The Office of the Election Officer showed that the end result of the presidential elections could be introduced at 7 pm (NST).
Lawmakers from all provinces have arrived in Kathmandu for the election. A general of 884 participants make up the Electoral College, along with 275 participants of the House of Representatives, fifty nine of the National Assembly and 550 of the seven provincial assemblies.
There will therefore be a complete weightage of 52,786 votes withinside the Electoral College if no seat withinside the federal parliament and provincial meeting is vacant. A candidate need to stable maximum of the votes to stable the pinnacle post. The weightage of 1 vote of the federal parliament lawmaker is seventy nine and that of a Province Assembly member is 48.
In the Presidential election, senior Nepali Congress chief Ram Chandra Paudel is supported with the aid of using 8 events whilst Subash Chandra Nembang, the only candidate from CPN-UML, is anticipated to be supported with the aid of using unbiased lawmakers.
The Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) had now no longer supported or proposed any candidate for president. Both Mr Paudel and Mr Nembang had later met RPP chairman Rajendra Lingden and different workplace-bearers at RPP’s workplace and sought their votes withinside the election. However, RPP had determined to abstain from vote casting at the eve of the presidential election.
Most of the important operating committee participants had opined at a five-hour-lengthy assembly on Wednesday that the celebration have to now no longer take part withinside the presidential election because it remains rooted in its middle agenda, which favours the healing of monarchy.
RPP spokesperson Mohan Shrestha showed that the important operating committee has determined to live impartial withinside the presidential election.
“It has been unanimously determined to now no longer take part and live impartial withinside the presidential election,”Mr Shrestha said.