{"id":37850,"date":"2025-12-18T08:53:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T03:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=37850"},"modified":"2025-12-18T08:53:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T03:08:57","slug":"uml-general-congress-voting-completes-with-2227-votes-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/uml-general-congress-voting-completes-with-2227-votes-cast\/","title":{"rendered":"UML General Congress: Voting completes with 2227 votes cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Dec 18: A total of 2,227 delegates have voted in the election that took place for a new leadership of the Communist Party of Nepal (UML). The voting took place under the 11th National Congress of the party underway in the federal capital.<\/p>\n<p>The party&#8217;s Central Election Commission Vice Chair Sanuraj Pokharel shared that the voting concluded at the Congress venue, Bhrikutimandap with a total of 2,227 of 2,263 delegates casting their vote. . According to him, 36 people abstained from the voting.<br \/>\nHe shared that preparations are underway to start the counting of votes, as some time is required to collect the documents for the counting of votes and establish a consensus. The results will be out within three hours of the start of the counting.<\/p>\n<p>Voting for the UML new leadership had begun at 9:12 am on Wednesday. A total of 642 candidates had filed nominations for the post of 301 central members in UML.<br \/>\nFor the vote, 80 electronic voting machines were used. Incumbent Chair KP Sharma Oli and Senior Vice-Chair Ishwar Pokharel are leading different groups to be elected as the new leadership of the CPN-UML.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Dec 18: A total of 2,227 delegates have voted in the election that took place for a new leadership of the Communist Party of Nepal (UML). The voting took place under the 11th National Congress of the party underway in the federal capital. The party&#8217;s Central Election Commission Vice Chair Sanuraj Pokharel shared that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37855,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37850\/revisions\/37855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}