Nepali congress’s, Ram Chandra Paudel was elected as the third president of Nepal. He was elected as the President of Nepal on March 9. Since the country became a republic in 2008, this is the third-presidential election of Nepal.
Mr Poudel, a common candidate of the eight-party alliance that included the Nepali Congress and the CPN (Maoist Center), received the vote of 214 lawmakers of Parliament and 352 Provincial Assembly members. The total number of voters for the election of the President is 882, consisting of 332 Members of the Parliament and 550 members of the Provincial Assemblies of the seven provinces.
“Hearty congratulations to my friend Ram Candra Poudelji for being elected as the President,” Nepali Congress chief Sher Bahadur Deuba tweeted.
