The voting process for the presidential election has started in the Legislature-Parliament. The voting which started at 11 am will continue till 2:00 pm. The Legislature-Parliament is electing the President for the first time after the promulgation of new constitution through the Constituent Assembly. CPN-UML Vice-chair Bidhya Devi Bhandari has registered her candidacy to the post of the President with support from the political parties of ruling alliance while Nepali Congress leader Kul Bahadur Gurung has also filed his candidacy to the post.
The Legislature-Parliament Secretariat said that the vote counts would begin from 2:30 today itself and the results would be announced in the Legislature-Parliament meeting to be held at 5:00 this evening. myrepublica
