Apr

21

Nepal Maoists win half of directly elected Assembly seats

Filed Under Politics | Posted By Jennifer Sullivan |

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Nepal’s chief election official told that Maoists have won half of the directly elected seats in elections for a Constitution-drafting Assembly.

The ex-rebels who are known as Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists) have won 120 of the 240 directly elected seats. Counting is continuing for three seats, but the Maoists are not expected to win those.

The directly elected seats make up only about 40 per cent of the total seats in the Assembly, but the Maoists’ win of half of these seats shows their level of strength.

Rest of the additional seats are to be allotted through a system that gives political parties a proportion based on the percentage of votes they received. Results for those seats are expected next in the week.

The Assembly will be charged with rewriting Nepal’s Constitution. The election was held April 10.



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