Nepal's electoral body prepares final November election result

After the one and half-month, Nepal's Election Commission (EC) has prepared the final result of Nov. 19 Constituent Assembly (CA) election, EC officials said on Friday. The EC officials said the result has been submitted to the President Ram Baran Yadav and it will be made public soon. After the government publishes the result in government gazette, ways will be opened for calling the first meeting of Constituent Assembly (CA). The process of result announcement was delayed as UCPN (Maoist), which faced unexpected loss in November 19 elections, was refusing to submit the names of its leaders to join in the CA. The Commission submitted the list of 240 lawmakers elected under the first-past-the-post electoral system and 335 lawmakers under the proportional representation (PR). The remaining 26 members of 601-member assembly will be nominated by the cabinet. Nepali Congress, a centrist party, emerged as a largest party, while CPN-UML secured second position and UCPN (Maoist) is the third largest in the new CA. "We have submitted the final result and now entire election process has been completed," Chief Election Commissioner Neel Kantha Uprety told the media. According the Interim Constitution, the first CA meeting should be commenced 21 days after submission of the final list of CA members to the president. However, there is deadlock in Nepal about calling the first meeting of CA, though both Chairman of Interim Election Government Khilraj Regmi and President Ram Baran Yadav are eager to call the meeting