Kathmandu, Dec 20:
The Election Commission (EC) has endorsed the voter list in view of the upcoming election to the National Assembly, the upper house of the Federal Parliament, scheduled to take place on January 25.
As per the endorsed voter list, there are a total of 2,047 voters who include Province Assembly (PA) members, chairs and vice-chairs of rural municipalities and mayors and deputy-mayors of municipalities for the upper house election.
Of them, 549 are PA members and 1,498 are local representatives. Though there should be total 550 voters from the PA, one member is no more and it has been fixed at 549.
Likewise, names of one rural chair, one vice chair and one deputy mayor are not in the voter list as they have already passed away. Similarly, the names of one rural municipality chair and four mayors have been excluded in the list as they currently remain suspended from the posts, according to a press statement issued by Commission Spokesperson Shaligram Sharma Paudel.
The total weightage of vote of PA members is 29,097, and it is 28,462 of local representatives: 57,500 in total. The voting weightage of a PA member is 53 followed by 19 of a local people’s representative as fixed by the Commission.
The voter name list will be available in the election officers’ office by this January 5 and it could be corrected through a certain procedure if needed. The EC will publish the final list on January 7.
Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS)
