National Independent Party Nears Majority After Direct Election Results, Focus Shifts to Speaker and Deputy Speaker Selection

Kathmandu. The counting of votes for the direct election in the House of Representatives held on Falgun 21 has been completed. According to the final count, out of 165 seats in the direct election, the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has secured 125, Nepali Congress 18, CPN-UML 9, CPN 8, Shram Sanskriti Party 3, Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) 1, and an independent candidate (Mahabir Pun) have been elected.The Election Commission has stated that the voting for the proportional representation (PR) system is also in its final stages. Out of the 10,977,711 votes cast under PR, the RSP has crossed 5 million...