Ram Chandra Poudel elected as new Nepal president

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Category : Appointment/Resignation Published on: March 11 2023

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Ram Chandra Poudel of Nepali Congress was elected as the third president of Nepal.
Poudel, a common candidate of eight-party alliance that included Nepali Congress and the CPN (Maoist Center), received the vote of 214 lawmakers of parliament and 352 provincial assembly members.
Paudel defeated CPN-UML Vice-chair Subash Chandra Nembang, who got 15,518 votes.
The President is elected by an Electoral College consisting of the members of the Federal Parliament (House of Representatives and the National Assembly) and the Provincial Assembly.
This is the third presidential election in Nepal since the country became a republic in 2008.

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Ram Chandra Poudel elected as new Nepal president