2008 Nepalese presidential election

2008 Nepalese presidential election

19 July 2008 (first round) 21 July 2008 (second round) 2015 →

Candidate Ram Baran Yadav Ram Raja Prasad Singh Party NC CPN (Maoist) Home state Dhanusa Saptari Running mate Parmananda Jha Shanta Shrestha Electoral vote 308 282 Percentage 52.20% 47.80%

Elected President Ram Baran Yadav NC

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Indirect presidential elections were held in Nepal in July 2008. The first round of voting was held on 19 July, with a run-off on 21 July. The Nepalese Constituent Assembly (CA) elected in April 2008 elected a new president and vice-president after the Fifth Amendment to the Interim Constitution was passed on 14 July.^[1] This would be the first President to be elected after Nepal became a republic a few months earlier.

In the newly passed amendment, the majority party will form the government, the CA will elect the new president on the basis of majority and a new provision that the Opposition Leader will be a member of the Constitutional Council.^[2] The leading political parties, Nepali Congress, Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist-Leninist) engaged in discussions regarding who would be the new president. The Nepali Congress wanted Prime Minister and interim Head of State Girija Prasad Koirala while the Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist-Leninist) wanted its former Secretary-General Madhav Kumar Nepal as president. However, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) wants an independent figure as president rather than party figures such as Koirala or Nepal. The Maoists won the most seats in the CA, though their party needs to form a coalition government with the other parties.^[3]