Kathmandu. The communist movement has suffered the biggest blow in its history in the House of Representatives election held on Falgun 21. According to the vote counting completed on Tuesday, CPN-UML won only 9 seats under the first-past-the-post system. In the proportional representation category, it is in third place with 1,455,885 votes. The Communist Party, formed by the merger of 25 leftist factions, secured 8 seats and came in fourth place with 811,577 votes in the proportional representation category. The unexpected results in favor of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), which was established three years ago, show that communist parties are...