KATHMANDU, Oct. 3 -- The Election Commission (EC) has fixed today as the deadline to withdraw the candidacies of those named in the proportional closed list.The time for submitting the revised list was fixed till yesterday.

The commission said that the final list of the closed list will be published on September 8.

If any candidate withdraws his/her candidacy today, they should inform their respective parties as well.

The EC had allowed parties to submit the corrected list of proportional candidates for the upcoming House of Representatives and provincial assembly elections by yesterday (October 2).

About 12 smaller political parties submitted the revised closed list for the proportional system on Sunday, making some changes to the li...