KATHMANDU: The Election Commission on Tuesday has decided to assign additional teams to expedite vote counting in various places.

Speaking to THT Online, EC spokesperson Surya Prasad Sharma said the additional teams would be mobilised to speed up the counting process. Sharma further said the concerned election officers would depute the additional counting teams as per the need.

The EC has made the decision to address the growing concern about the painstakingly slow rate of vote counting across the 34 districts in Province - 3, 4 and 6.

Nepal on Sunday successfully commenced the local level elections to select local representatives in 281 local units.

The EC spokesperson informed that the 14 local representatives including 3 local bodies from Manang district, 5 local units from Mustang district, 3 local units from Dolpa district, 1 local bodies each in Baglung, Jumla and Kalikot, have been declared.

Meanwhile, EC which was counting the votes of ward number 1 and 32 has formed a separate team to count votes of ward number 2 to expedite the vote counting.

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