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Digital Desk: Ram Chandra Poudel of Nepali Congress was on Thursday elected as the third president of Nepal. Poudel, a common candidate of an eight-party alliance that included the Nepali Congress and the CPN (Maoist Center), got the support of 214 lawmakers of parliament and 352 provincial assembly members.
"Hearty congratulations to my friend Ram Candra Poudelji for being elected as the President," Nepali Congress chief Sher Bahadur Deuba tweeted.
The total number of voters for the election of the president is 882, which includes 332 members of Parliament and 550 members of the provincial legislatures of the seven provinces.
Shaligram, the spokesperson of the Election Commission, said 518 Provincial Assembly members and 313 members of the Federal Parliament voted in the presidential election.
This is Nepal's third presidential election since the nation became a republic in 2008.
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