PM election schedule announced

Rajan Ghimire-

The secretariat of the Constituent Assembly on Friday made public the schedule for the election of new Prime Minister at the direction of the CA chairman Subash Nembang.According to acting Secretary General of CA secretariat Manohar Bhattarai, the candidates can file their nomination from 10 am to 1 pm on Saturday. The final list of the candidates will be published at 1:30 pm. Bhattarai said that voting for the new PM would start in the Legislature-Parliament session at 3 pm.Twenty-two parties have fielded CPN-UML leader Madhav Kumar Nepal as a candidate for the post while other two parties -- the CPN-Maoist and CPN-United -- were still undecided on fielding another candidate.

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