Kathmandu, Dec. 25 -- With just five days to the deadline to submit the closed list under the proportional representation (PR) system, political parties are busy finalising the names of their candidates.

Different parties have developed different criteria to select the candidates under the PR category for the House of Representative elections to be held on March 5. While some have already received the recommendations from their lower committees, others are still waiting for them.

The Nepali Congress and the CPN-UML have decided not to repeat those who were elected under the same category in the past. They have also asked their subordinate committees not to recommend the names of the incumbent representatives at the local units, provinci...