No winner in first presidential vote
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Nepal’s national assembly failed to elect the new republic’s first president when none of the three candidates was able to secure the votes necessary to win, an official said.
A candidate had to garner 50% of the 594 votes in the Constituent Assembly to be elected. Constituent Assembly chairman Kul Bahadur Gurung said another election would be held Monday, between the two top candidates -- Ram Baran Yadav, backed by the Nepali Congress party and the Communist Party; and Ramraja Singh, who is backed by the Maoists.
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