Ram Chandra Paudel wins Nepal presidential election
Ram Chandra Paudel has been elected as the new President of Nepal. The 78-year-old leader on Thursday won the Presidential election after receiving nearly two-thirds of the votes. The voting took place at the country’s parliamentary building in New Baneshwar in Kathmandu.
According to Nepal’s Election Commission, Paudel, a candidate of Tanahun-1 constituency, secured 33,802 electoral votes while his rival Subash Chandra Nembwang secured 15,518 electoral votes out of 52,628 votes. 214 members of the parliament and 352 representatives from the provincial assemblies voted in favour of Poudel.
A total of 882 people, including 332 members of parliament, including 275 members of the House of Representatives, 59 of the National Assembly, and 550 representatives from each of the seven provincial assemblies, voted to elect the president.
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Nepali Congress leader Paudel was a common candidate of the eight-party alliance that included the CPN (Maoist Center) while his rival Subash Chandra Nembang was the sole candidate from CPN-UML.
Nepali Congress chief Sher Bahadur Deuba congratulated Paudel for becoming the third President of the country. He tweeted, Hearty congratulations to my friend Ram Candra Poudelji for being elected as the President.
This is the third presidential election in Nepal since the country became a republic in 2008.
Paudel has earlier served as Deputy Prime Minister and Speaker of the House of Representatives of Nepal. Poudel has also served as Acting President of the Nepali Congress after the death of party president Sushil Koirala.
Poudel received the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun from Japan for his contributions to enhancing Nepal-Japan ties in 2020.
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