World News | UML's Party's Ghimire Elected Nepal's House Speaker
Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. Nepal's CPN-UML party leader Dev Raj Ghimire was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives on Thursday, after a decisive vote in parliament, in which he received the backing of 167 lawmakers.
Kathmandu, Jan 19 (PTI) Nepal's CPN-UML party leader Dev Raj Ghimire was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives on Thursday, after a decisive vote in parliament, in which he received the backing of 167 lawmakers.
Ghimire was pitted against Nepali Congress lawmaker Ishwori Neupane. In the House of Representatives (HoR) meeting, 167 votes were cast in favour of Ghimire, 100 votes were cast against while a solitary lawmaker abstained from the vote to elect Ghimire as the Speaker.
Only 138 votes are required for a win in the 275-member lower house.
“I declare the proposal to elect Ghimire as Speaker has been endorsed through a majority,” said the oldest parliamentarian Pashupati Shumsher Rana, who chaired the meeting as a Speaker.
CPN-UML, CPN (Maoist Center), Rastriya Prajatantra Party, Rastriya Swatantra Party, Janata Samajwadi Party, Janmat Party, Nagarik Unmukti Party and independent MPs Amresh Kumar Singh, Prabhu Shah and Yogendra Mandal voted in favour of Ghimire.
Ghimire was elected an HoR member from Jhapa constituency No. 2 during the elections that took place on November 20 last year.
He was elected to the National Assembly in 1999.
Meanwhile, the election for the post of Deputy Speaker of HoR is scheduled to take place on January 21, Rana said.
"Those wishing to participate in the election for the post of Deputy Speaker should file nomination papers on Friday," he added.
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