Ram Chandra Poudel, a member of the Nepali Congress, has been elected as the new President of Nepal.

• Poudel was the common candidate of an eight-party alliance that included Nepali Congress and Prime Minister 'Prachanda'-led CPN (Maoist Center).
• He received the vote of 214 lawmakers of parliament and 352 provincial assembly members, winning the election with the support of eight political parties. 
• He joined politics at the age of 16 and became a founding central member of Nepal Students' Union, the student wing of Nepali Congress, in 1970.