Prachanda suffers humiliating defeat in constituent assembly elections

“The elections were conducted in a free, fair and fearless manner, so the results must be accepted by all.”



He also asked the political parties to honour the peoples' verdict expressed through secret voting procedures. 

The counting will lead to the formation of a 601-member assembly to draft a new Constitution, including 240 elected under a direct voting system.

There was proportionate voting for 335 seats and the remaining 26 members will be nominated by the government. 

In the previous Constituent Assembly elections in 2008, UCPN-M had emerged as the largest party with NC and CPN-UML in second and third place.