KATHMANDU, Dec 8 (NNN-XINHUA) – Nepal’s ruling alliance, won a majority of seats in four of the seven provinces, as the Election Commission announced the results last night, for the provincial assembly polls.
No single party has commanded a majority in all the seven provincial assemblies, as is the case for the House of Representatives of parliament.
The four ruling parties – the Nepali Congress, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre), the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist) and the Loktantrik Samajbadi Party – are in the majority, in the provinces of Bagmati, Gandaki, Karnali and Sudurpaschim, along with the Rastriya Janamorcha, which formed an electoral alliance with the ruling parties.
The main opposition alliance, led by the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist) (CPN-UML), failed to command a majority in any provincial assembly.
As shown by the election results, the Nepali Congress has bagged 176 seats in the seven provincial assemblies, while the CPN-UML comes second with 161 seats. The two parties have also emerged as the first and second largest in the lower house.
Nepalis went to the polls on Nov 20, to select 275 representatives to the House of Representatives and 550 members to the seven provincial assemblies.
The ruling alliance secured 136 seats in the lower house, two seats shy of a majority, needed to form a new government on its own, and the major parties have been discussing the formation of a new federal government.– NNN-XINHUA
