Vice-Chairperson of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) (CPN-UML) Bidhya Devi Bhandari waves after voting at the Parliament in Kathmandu, Nepal, Oct. 28, 2015. (Xinhua/Pratap Thapa)
KATHMANDU, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- Nepal's parliament on Wednesday elected Bidhya Devi Bhandari, Vice Chairperson of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) as the country's first female president.
Bhandari, 54, has been the second president of the country after the Himalayan country became the federal democratic republic in 2008 ending a 240-year Monarchy.
