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President Ram Chandra Paudel has expressed heartfelt condolences to KP Sharma Oli, Chairman of the CPN-UML, who is in mourning.

President Paudel visited the residence of former Prime Minister Oli in Gundu, Bhaktapur to express his condolences and other members of the mourning family.

Former Prime Minister Oli's father, Mohan Prasad Oli, passed away last Friday at the age of 97.

The Election Commission (EC) is to provide certificates to the winners of the House of Representatives (HoR) elections under the proportional representation (PR) system on Wednesday.

According to Krishna Bahadur Raut, the Election Officer of the PR electoral system, the winners of the HoR seat under the PR system will be given certificates at 11:30 am on Wednesday at the EC premises.

The name of 110 candidates elected under the PR system from the HoR elections conducted on March 5 was released by the EC on Monday.   

According to the EC, six different political parties have gained the status of national party by crossing a minimum threshold of three percent of the total valid votes. 

Under the PR system, the Rastriya Swatantra Party has won 57 seats, Nepali Congress 20, CPN-UML 16 and nine by the Nepali Communist Party. Likewise, Shram Sanskriti Party and Rastriya Prajatantra Party won equal four seats under the PR system.  

The election process of the HoR elections conducted on March 5 will be completed after providing certificates to the winning candidates.

The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) is running an orientation program for its newly-elected Members of Parliament (MPs). 

The two-day residential program is beginning today in Lalitpur, the party stated.

RSP Spokesperson Manish Jha shared that parliamentary practices, policymaking, parliamentary businesses and the responsibilities of people's representatives, party policies to be applied and other related matters would be shared to the MPs.

Earlier on Monday, the party's General Secretary Kabindra Burlakoti issued a six-point directive to the party lawmakers, asking them to attend the orientation program.  

The RSP won 182 seats under the first-past-the-post (FPTP) and proportional representation (PR) system in the House of Representatives (HoR) elections conducted on March 5.

The Election Commission (EC) has disclosed a list of 110 Members of Parliament (MP) who have been elected in accordance with the law under the proportional representation electoral system, following the designated 'cluster'. 

The published list reveals that 57 MPs were elected from the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) under this system. 

Additionally, 20 MPs were elected from the Nepali Congress (NC), 16 from the  CPN-UML,  nine from the Nepali Communist Party (NCP), and four each from the Shram Sanskriti Party and the  Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP). 

It was shared in a statement issued today by Krishna Bahadur Raut, Commission's Secretary and Returning Officer for Proportional Representation system. 

In the election held on March 5, a total of 11,280,617 votes were cast for proportional representation with 10,835,025 deemed valid.