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Nepal elects its first president
July 22, 2008
Nepal picked the country's first president rejecting the Maoist candidate in a move that could force the nascent Himalayan republic into more political turmoil. Ram Baran Yadav, an ethnic Madheshi from the centrist Nepali Congress party, won 308 out of the 590 votes cast by the constituent assembly. It was the first major vote in a special assembly since lawmakers decided to abolish the 240-year-old monarchy and declare a republic.
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