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Fewer parties contesting elections under PR system

Kathmandu, Oct 17 (UNI) Fewer parties have submitted the closed list of candidates for the federal elections under the proportional representation (PR) system compared to the number of participants in the last Constituent Assembly elections held in 2013, The Kathmandu Post reported on Tuesday.
According to the ECN, 49 parties submitted their PR list on Sunday, which is nearly a third of the parties that participated in the CA elections 2013. As many as 122 parties participated in the last CA elections under the PR system.
ECN officials said that the smaller parties were discouraged to give candidacy due to provision of threshold in the law that allows representation in the House of Representatives only if a party secures votes more than set threshold.
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