Lawmakers in Nepal's constitutional assembly have reportedly chosen the country's first president.
Nepalese media quoted election sources as saying that Ram Baran Yadav, who was supported by the centrist Nepali Congress party, had won 308 out of 590 votes in Monday's run-off. The run-off was necessary because no candidate secured the simple majority required in a first round of voting on Saturday. The presidential run-off comes after Nepal's costitutional assembly voted to abolish the county's 240-year-old Hindu monarchy in May.
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