EC to submit election report to President today

Kathmandu, Mar. 19: The Election Commission will submit the comprehensive report along with the results of the election to the House of Representatives held on March 5 to President Ramchandra Paudel on Thursday.

EC Assistant Spokesperson Kul Bahadur GC said that the consolidated election report would be submitted to the President on Thursday afternoon after presenting the certificate to the new lawmakers elected under proportional representation (PR) electoral system in the morning.

The EC will organise a press conference at its office on Thursday evening after submitting the election report to President Paudel.  Once the EC submits the report, it is said that the way would open for the formation of a new government in accordance with Article 76 (1) of the Constitution.

The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has a clear majority to form the new government. It won 182 seats in the 275-member House of Representatives.

GC added that preparations have been completed to present certificates to 110 members of the House of Representatives elected from the proportional representation (PR) system.

Fifty-seven lawmakers from RSP, 20 from Nepali Congress, 16 from CPN (UML), nine from Nepali Communist Party, and four each from Shram Sanskriti Party and Rastriya Prajatantra Party were elected under the PR election system.

Similarly, 125 members of RSP, 18 from NC, nine from UML, eight from NCP, three from Shram Sanskriti Party, and one from RPP, and one independent candidate were elected to the House of Representatives under the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) system.