{"id":38708,"date":"2025-12-28T20:42:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T14:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=38708"},"modified":"2025-12-28T20:42:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T14:57:31","slug":"political-parties-begin-submitting-closed-lists-of-pr-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/political-parties-begin-submitting-closed-lists-of-pr-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Political parties begin submitting closed lists of PR candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Kathmandu, Dec 28:<\/strong> The political parties have started submitting their closed lists of the Proportional Representation (PR) electoral system contesting the upcoming March 5 election, according to the Election Commission (CE).<\/p>\n<p>The EC, a constitutional body mandated to conduct and monitor the election, issued a press statement today in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>Some political parties have submitted the list today itself, as the EC had called for the submission of the list by 4 PM today. The submission can be made by the same time tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>In a press statement issued by EC Joint-Secretary and Spokesperson Narayan Prasad Bhattarai, three political parties have submitted their lists fulfilling all procedures by Sunday noon.<\/p>\n<p>The Nepal Workers Peasant Party, Janapriya Lokatantrik Party and Shram Sanskriti Party completed the registration process by producing the documents and the EC conducted a cross-check on the candidates&#8217; names whether they were listed in the voter list or not, the EC stated.<\/p>\n<p>Once the submission is made within the given timeline, the Commission will look into the matter to confirm if the closed lists comply with the election laws or not.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission will thereafter publish the closed lists and the final lists subsequently, said Spokesperson Bhattarai.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, 100 political parties had registered their parties to participate in the election under the PR electoral system with 93 electoral symbols.<\/p>\n<p>It may be noted that the interim government formed in the wake of the September&#8217;s Gen-Z Movement in the premiership of Prime Minister Sushila Karki is mandated to conduct the House of Representatives (HoR) election.<br \/>\nAccordingly, the interim government announced to conduct the election on March 5, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>There are more than 18.89 million eligible voters registered and those registered voters can cast their votes in two ballot papers each for the PR and direct electoral systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Dec 28: The political parties have started submitting their closed lists of the Proportional Representation (PR) electoral system contesting the upcoming March 5 election, according to the Election Commission (CE). The EC, a constitutional body mandated to conduct and monitor the election, issued a press statement today in this regard. Some political parties have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-main-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38708"}],"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=38708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38710,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38708\/revisions\/38710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}