Nepal-Maoists boycott poll as counting half way through

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The Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists has decided not to accept the outcome of the Tuesday poll which has the party fairing miserably across the country as the counting is in progress.

Party spokesperson Agni Sapkota said after an emergency meeting of party's senior leaders and central committee members that it has withdrawn its candidates from 'counting centers' and decided not to accept the verdict as "this is not what people wanted".

The unexpected announcement came when Maoist is trailing as a distant third , with its Chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal and other top leaders lagging far behind.

The UCP was the biggest party in the last constituent Assembly with 237 seats in the 601-member House.

Sapkota said there had been large scale bungling during the counting and "we feel we are being cornered".

"This is not what the people had wanted," he said.

Maoists alleged that there was a 'conspiracy' between the national actors and international forces to "finish us". "We will soon appeal to the people for justice," he said.

Nepal-Maoists boycott poll as counting half way through - Indian Express

 

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see Nepali people have realised within 5 years thar these communists are not worthy of their votes.

 

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Prachanda loses, Maoists want vote count stopped

Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ suffers defeat at the hands of Nepali Congress candidate Rajan K.C. in the Constituent Assembly elections.
Nepal’s Unified CPN-Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, better known as Prachanda, on Thursday suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of Nepali Congress candidate Rajan K.C. in the Constituent Assembly elections.

Mr. Rajan received 20,392 votes and restricted Prachanda to 12,852 in his Kathmandu Constituency 10. Third candidate CPN-UML’s Surendra Manandhar received 13,615 votes.

Mr. Prachanda had won from the same constituency in 2008 with big margin. Mr. Rajan was his nearest rival then.

Mr. Prachanda is also candidate from Siraha Constituency 5 also, where he is leading the vote count so far.

His party earlier demanded a suspension of the vote counting, alleging conspiracy after initial results showed the party trailing at third position in the elections.

Meanwhile, Chief Election Commissioner Neel Kantha Uprety told a press conference on Thursday that the counting was being carried out in “a transparent manner” and would continue.

“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.

Prachanda loses, Maoists want vote count stopped - The Hindu