NA Election Outcome No Threat To Ruling Coalition

Discord among the ruling alliance's main parties emerged following the National Assembly (NA) election's shocking Koshi results. The alliance's top brass had hoped to fill one of the female quota seats with a CPN-Maoist Centre candidate, but a number of Nepali Congress lawmakers, municipal chiefs and deputy chiefs, and rural municipality chairs and deputy chairs cast a cross-vote in favour of the UML candidate, who won the NA ballot held on January 25. Soon after the unexpected outcome, Maoist Centre officials began berating the Nepali Congress for their candidate Champa Karki's loss in the election. After seeing that their combined vote total would be higher than that of opposing parties like the UML and Rastriya Prajatantra Party, the Nepali Congress and Maoist Centre decided to field a single candidate each for Koshi province and ensure their election.