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Nepal election: Kathmandu empties as 800,000 Nepalis head home to vote

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Authorities have reported hours-long jams over the weekend while photos show buses lining highways.

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Kathmandu, 5 Mar (Latin Press) Millions of citizens are now coming to the polls in Nepal to elect the members of the House of Representatives, in a process deemed decisive after the political crisis that led to the fall of the previous government. The post Nepal holds elections in a climate of high political expectation first appeared on News Prensa Latina.

Nepal, nestled in the Himalayan mountains, is holding parliamentary elections today. About 800,000 people from the capital Kathmandu and surrounding areas traveled to their homelands last week to cast their votes. About 10 percent of Nepal’s 30 million people live and work in the Kathmandu Valley. By law, citizens can only vote in their registered constituency, usually their hometown, so traffic out of Kathmandu has been snarled for hours in rec…

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