Election Commission Prepares to Submit House of Representatives Election Report to President by Early Chaitra

Kathmandu. The Election Commission is preparing to submit the 'House of Representatives Election' report to President Ramchandra Paudel by the first week of Chaitra. The commission is preparing to submit the report, which includes the parties and individuals who won seats in the elections held on Falgun 21 under both the first-past-the-post and proportional representation systems, to the President by the first week of Chaitra.

The results for 165 seats under the first-past-the-post system have already been announced. According to the received results, the Rastriya Swatantra Party won 125 seats, Nepali Congress 18, CPN-UML 9, CPN (Maoist Centre) 8, Shram Sanskriti Party 3, Rastriya Prajatantra Party 1, and independent candidate (Mahabir Pun) won 1 seat.

The commission is preparing to conclude the counting of votes under the ongoing proportional representation system by Tuesday evening (today). A total of 17,707,11 votes were cast under the proportional representation system. As of the time of preparing this report, approximately 10.5 million votes have been counted.

If the vote counting concludes today, the commission will write to the political parties on Wednesday (Falgun 27) to send the list of individuals who will become members of parliament under the proportional representation system allocated to them. The law concerning the House of Representatives election mandates that parties be given 3 days to submit the list. Therefore, the commission will give the parties time until Falgun 30. Since the deadline is Falgun 30, the parties will submit the list of individuals who will be their proportional representation MPs to the Election Commission by Chaitra 1. Following this, the commission will study the lists sent by the parties to check for any errors and whether the clusters comply with the constitution and laws.

The commission has created an internal calendar to re-issue a letter giving 2 days to parties that do not comply, if there are discrepancies. After the non-compliant parties correct the errors and resubmit, the commission will verify compliance with the law and is preparing to issue certificates to the MPs elected through the proportional representation system by Chaitra 3 at the earliest and Chaitra 5 at the latest.

Election Commission Spokesperson, Joint Secretary Narayan Prasad Bhattarai, informed that the commission is preparing to finalize the report within one or two days and submit it to the President. Spokesperson Bhattarai told Ratopati, 'The commission is preparing to submit the 'House of Representatives Election Report' to the President within the first week of Chaitra.'