Six Parties Submit Proportional Representation Candidate Lists to Election Commission

Kathmandu. All six political parties that secured seats under the proportional representation (PR) system have submitted the names from their closed lists according to the number of seats they received to the Election Commission.

The Commission had written to the political parties that crossed the 3% threshold on Thursday, asking them to select and submit the names of candidates within three days for the PR seats. The six parties that crossed the 3% threshold in the House of Representatives election held on Falgun 21 were Rastriya Swatantra Party, Nepali Congress, CPN-UML, CPN (Maoist Centre), Shram Sanskriti Party, and Rastriya Prajatantra Party.

In this election, RSP received the highest number of PR seats with 57, while Nepali Congress received 20, UML received 16, CPN (Maoist Centre) received 9, Shram Sanskriti received 4, and RPP received 4 seats. Following the correspondence from the Commission on Thursday based on the seats they received, the parties submitted the names on Sunday.

Election Commission Joint Spokesperson Kul Bahadur GC informed that the Commission has started the process of verifying the names since all six political parties submitted them on Sunday. "All six parties have sent the names, and the verification of the received names has begun," GC said. "After confirming whether the clusters match, the remaining process will be completed."

After finalizing the proportional representation members, the Commission is preparing to submit the election report to the President. "If all the names sent by the parties match the clusters, it is fine; otherwise, we may have to write again," GC said. "We are in favor of completing all work as fast as possible."