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Nepal holds 15th round of elections to pick new PM

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-11-01 16:55

KATHMANDU -- Voting for the post of Prime Minister is taking place for the 15th time at the Legislature Parliament Monday afternoon.

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The exercise is also certain to be futile as political parties have not reached a consensus.

Nepali Congress (NC) candidate Ram Chandra Paudel is the sole candidate for the post, but he failed to gain a majority in previous NC lawmakers votings.

Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and the Communist Party Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist are not participating in the voting process.

As per the parliamentary regulations, the elections will continue until a candidate secures a simple majority (301) of the votes in the 601-member parliament.