Dahal to back NC candidate for president Barely two months after CPN-Maoist Centre Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal forged alliance with CPN-UML to form the government, he distanced himself from the UML and decided to back the Nepali Congress candidate for the president, effectively reviving the old alliance with the NC. Nepal 25 Feb, 2023
President's amnesty move draws flak President Bidhya Devi Bhandari’s decision to grant amnesty to all local level candidates, who were fined by the Election Commission for failing to submit details of their election expenses within the stipulated deadline of 30 days has drawn condemnations from lawyers. Nepal 19 Feb, 2023
Decision to slap fine on Balen stayed The Supreme Court has stayed the Election Commission’s decision to impose fine on Kathmandu Metropolitan City Mayor Balendra (Balen) Shah. The EC had imposed a fine of Rs 750,000 on Balen for not submitting his election expenditure within the stipulated deadline of 30 days. Nepal 16 Feb, 2023
NC blames Dahal for breaking alliance Nepali Congress Spokesperson Prakash Sharan Mahat said the current seven-party alliance led by CPN-Maoist Centre Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal was an opportunistic alliance whose life could be shorter than expected. Nepal 05 Jan, 2023
'Hung Parliament need not be a cause for worry' Nepali Congress leader and former deputy prime minister and home minister Bimalendra Nidhi needs no introduction. Nidhi, the former vice-president of NC, who hails from Dhanusha district, has won parliamentary seat under the proportional representation system. Nepal 15 Dec, 2022
'Janmat Party's victory reflects people's desire for change' Janmat party secured only 26,659 votes less than Upendra Yadav-led Janata Samajbadi Party-Nepal, which had emerged as a new but dominant political force in 2008. Nepal 13 Dec, 2022
'Parties need to learn culture of coalition' Political analyst Uddhab Pyakurel says that Nepal’s political parties need to learn the culture of coalition politics as it is here to stay for a long time. Nepal 11 Dec, 2022
Counting over, UML gets most PR votes The Election Commission has finished counting all proportional representation ballot papers and the CPN- UML has emerged as the largest party in the proportional representation vote tally with 2,845,641 PR votes. Nepal 07 Dec, 2022
All FPTP results out, PR count ends today The Election Commission has finished counting all the first-past-the-post ballot papers and is now counting only the proportional representation ballot papers of Bajura constituency. Nepal 06 Dec, 2022
CPN-MC for strengthening ruling alliance Amid reports that the CPN-Maoist Centre is in talks with CPN-UML to forge alliance, a senior leader of the party has claimed that such reports are misleading and the party is in favour of strengthening the current ruling alliance. Nepal 05 Dec, 2022
Will CPN (US) merge with CPN-MC? CPN (Unified Socialist) is taking pains to clarify that there is no truth in news reports that the party is soon going to unify with CPN-Maoist Centre, but its senior leaders think otherwise. Nepal 03 Dec, 2022
Final result in four days: EC If the political parties do not create any hurdles during the vote counting process, the EC can complete vote counting in the next four days and submit final results of the parliamentary and provincial elections to the president the next day. Kathmandu 02 Dec, 2022
