FIRST PRESIDENT: Nepali Congress party presidential candidate Ram Baran Yadav, 61, talks on a cell phone at the International Convention Center in Katmandu, Nepal, Saturday. Yadav was elected as the new republic's first president on Monday.(AP/Binod Joshi)
State-run television says Nepal's governing assembly elected the new republic's first president
since it abolished the centuries-old monarchy in May.
Nepal Television says Constituent Assembly members elected Ram Baran Yadav of the Nepali Congress party as the president.
The television said an official announcement was expected to be made later in the evening by assembly chairman Kul Bahadur Gurung. Yadav received more than half the votes in the 594-seat
assembly that was required to win.(**)
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