Voting for president, vice president completes; 16 CA
members absent
Voting for Nepal's first president and vice president has
completed, and counting of votes is underway at the
Constituent Assembly (CA) Secretariat in Naya Baneshwor.
The voting, which officially began at 11:00 am, concluded
half an hour behind schedule, at around 2:30 pm. Out of
the 594 CA members registered for voting, 578 CA members
cast their votes to elect the president and vice
president.
Four minor parties - Nepal Workers and Peasants Party,
Rastriya Prajatantra Party (Nepal), Rastriya Janamorcha
and CPN (Unified) - boycotted the election.
The results of the election will be presented to CA
chairperson at 5:00 pm for announcement at the CA meeting
today.
Seven candidates - three for president and four for vice
president - are in the fray, but the UML and Madhesi
Janadhikar Forum (MJF) had agreed, earlier today, to back
Nepali Congress presidential candidate Dr Ram Baran Yadav
while NC and UML agreed to support the MJF candidate for
vice-president, Paramananda Jha. nepalnews.com mk July 19 08
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