Kathmandu. Nepali Congress candidate Ramchandra Paudel has been elected as the President. Poudel was elected with 33 thousand 802 votes in the federal parliament election on Thursday. He got the votes of 214 federal MPs and 352 state MPs.

Paudel got the votes of Nepali Congress, CPN Maoist Center, Janata Samajwadi Party, CPN United Socialist Party, National Independent Party, Janmaat Party, Civil Liberation Party, National People's Front. Another candidate, UML's Subash Chandra Nemwang, got 15,518 votes. Election office sources said that he got the votes of 96 federal MPs and 162 provincial MPs.

831 people, including 313 federal parliamentarians and 518 provincial assembly members, voted in the presidential election in which members of the federal parliament and state assembly voted.

Out of the 334 members of the Federal Parliament, 14 members of the RPP and 1 member of the Nepal Labor Farmers Party did not participate in the voting. Nepali Congress's Chandra Bhandari and CPN Maoist Center's Barshaman were out of the country for re-treatment and did not participate in the voting.

Tek Bahadur Gurung, who was elected from Congress and convicted in a corruption case, could not vote as he was under suspension. Lakshmi Mahato Koiri of UML, accused in a criminal case, did not come to vote in the presidential election even though her name was in the voter list. Out of 550 members of the state assembly, only 518 voted. 28 MPs from RPP, 3 MPs from Nepal Labor Kisan Party and one MP from JSP did not vote.