Kathmandu: Nepal parliament will opt for the new President on Tuesday, with vote casting set to start from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Incumbent President Bidhya Devi Bhandari is standing inside the fray for her 2d time period challenged via Laxmi Rai from the Nepali Congress, however the mathematical calculation has proven the vote to swing for President Bhandari.
sure to be elected, President Bhandari may be the primary president of federal Nepal. She has hence also set the report as the first woman president of Nepal.
“The preparations for the election of these days were finished. we have made the arrangements to rely the votes after the balloting concludes, and the vote counting is expected to start after 4:00 p.m. and the outcomes might be out by way of the night,” Election commission’s spokesperson Nawaraj Dhakal informed ANI over phone.
In Tuesday’s vote casting, a complete of a total of 330 lawmakers from the Federal Parliament and 550 lawmakers from the Provincial Council are eligible to vote. currently, there are 275 lawmakers in house of Representatives and 59 within the countrywide meeting.
But, the vote weightage of the lawmakers from the adjacent parliaments is unique. The vote weightage of lawmaker of Federal Parliament is seventy nine, whereas it’s miles forty eight of the lawmakers from the Provincial Council. The blended vote weightage of the votes as consistent with the calculations now is 26,000 and 70.
a total of 549 lawmakers from the Provincial Council will vote to go with new president so that you can have the total vote weightage of 26,352.
The calculation of the votes to be cast in favour of incumbent President Bhandari from left alliance is 33,575. the primary opposition Nepali Congress has the vote weightage of eleven,428 only.
The Rastriya Janata celebration- Nepal and the Federal Socialist discussion board- Nepal are predicted to vote in favour of Bhandari assuring Bhandari’s continuation over the post.
The Communist birthday party of CPN-UML has a total of 148 lawmakers in national assembly and residence of consultant or the Federal meeting whereas a total of 243 are in Provincial Councils. they all have the vote weightage of 23,356 with 10,319 votes from the Maoist center.
The Nepali Congress is left in the back of with 11,428 vote weightage and the RJP-N and the FSF-N has vote weightage of two,845 and three,198 vote weightage.