No winner in first presidential vote
Nepal’s national assembly failed to elect the new republic’s first president when none of the three candidates was able to secure the votes necessary to win, an official said.
A candidate had to garner 50% of the 594 votes in the Constituent Assembly to be elected. Constituent Assembly chairman Kul Bahadur Gurung said another election would be held Monday, between the two top candidates -- Ram Baran Yadav, backed by the Nepali Congress party and the Communist Party; and Ramraja Singh, who is backed by the Maoists.
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