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13325
Tue, 07/22/2008 - 12:08
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Nepal elects Ram Baran Yadav as republic's 1st president+
KATHMANDU, July 22 Kyodo - Nepal's special assembly on Monday elected Ram Baran Yadav as the first president of the new republic, which had a king as its head as state until the monarchy was abolished on May 28.
Assembly chairman Kul Bahadur Gurung announced that Yadav, who is general secretary of the Nepali Congress party led by Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, won Monday's runoff election after an inconclusive vote held Saturday.
In the runoff, Yadav, 61, who is a medical doctor by profession, secured 308 votes in the assembly that currently has 594 members.
Yadav, an ethnic Madhesi from the country's southern beltcalled Madhes, defeated Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) candidate Ram Raja Prasad Singh, who got 282 votes.
Prachanda, chairman of the Maoist party, the largest party in the assembly that was elected in April, had been pushing for Singh to be president to reward him for his decades of struggle against the monarchical tradition.
The assembly abolished the country's 240-year-old monarchy on May 28, two years after the Maoists ended their 10-year insurgency that left over 13,000 dead.
Assembly chairman Kul Bahadur Gurung announced that Yadav, who is general secretary of the Nepali Congress party led by Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, won Monday's runoff election after an inconclusive vote held Saturday.
In the runoff, Yadav, 61, who is a medical doctor by profession, secured 308 votes in the assembly that currently has 594 members.
Yadav, an ethnic Madhesi from the country's southern beltcalled Madhes, defeated Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) candidate Ram Raja Prasad Singh, who got 282 votes.
Prachanda, chairman of the Maoist party, the largest party in the assembly that was elected in April, had been pushing for Singh to be president to reward him for his decades of struggle against the monarchical tradition.
The assembly abolished the country's 240-year-old monarchy on May 28, two years after the Maoists ended their 10-year insurgency that left over 13,000 dead.
