Candidates from various political parties as well as independents have filed their nomination papers under the first-past-the-post FPTP category as the Election Commission fixed date for filing candidacy concluded on Sunday.Various candidates have filed their nominations for the 165 seats of the House of Representatives and 330 of the provincial assemblies, according to the Election Commission sources.Top leaders of various political parties, including Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and main opposition leader K P Sharma Oli, have registered their nominations for the upcoming polls.
Amid mixed signals, Nepal faction s support for Deuba is not a certainty Kathmandu Post
Kathmandu, July 18 Two political developments-one within the CPN-UML and the other within the Janata Samajbadi Party-on Saturday provided indications on the immediate direction of Nepali politics in the form of the fate of the Sher Bahadur Deuba government.
How these developments will take a final shape will decide whether Deuba continues as prime minister for the full term of the House of Representatives, which has some 18 months to go, or there will be midterm polls within six months. Deuba needs to take a vote of confidence in the House by August 11 failing which the House will be dissolved and snap polls called.