HoR gets new Speaker

CPN (UML) lawmaker and former law minister Subash Nemwang has been elected to the post of Speaker of the House of Representatives unopposed on Saturday.

After the house resolved on Friday to hold election for the Speaker on Saturday, the Seven-Party Alliance (SPA) agreed to elect Nemwang as the Speaker.

Nepali Congress (Democratic) had been stressing that deputy speaker Chitra Lekha Yadav be promoted to the post of Speaker while UML had been demanding reservation for the post.