Nepal’s First Female
President
Vidhya Devi Bhandari
KATHMANDU:
Nepal's parliament has elected a Communist leader who has long campaigned for
women's rights as the Himalayan nation's first female President on Wednesday 28th
October 2015.
Parliament
speaker Onsari Gharti announced that Vidhya Devi Bhandari of the Communist
Party of Nepal Unified Marxist-Leninist received 327 votes against her
opponent's 214 in parliament .
Bhandari is the deputy leader of the party led by Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli. He was elected earlier this month and leads a coalition government.
Bhandari is Nepal's second president since the Himalayan nation was turned into a republic after abolishing the centuries-old monarchy. Ram Baran Yadav remained president for seven years because it took that long for the constitution to be prepared and adopted.
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