The Maoists are expected to take a leading role in a new coalition, when vote counting in Nepal's elections is complete.
The manual counting of millions of ballots has been slower than expected and the electoral commission was expected to miss a Wednesday night deadline to release the final results. The Election Commission said the Maoists had won one third of directly contested seats and had about 30.1 per cent of the total votes in the proportional representation. However, the former rebels will fall short of a majority in the assembly, which is tasked with writing a new constitution and ratifying the decision of the interim parliament to abolish the Nepal Maoists claim poll victory ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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