Nepal's first post-royal president Ram B

Nepal's first post-royal president Ram Baran YadaV presses his palms together in greeting to unseen supporters after his election win was announced in Kathmandu on July 21, 2008. Lamakers in Nepal voted the country's first post-royal president rejecting a candidate backed by the maoist. Die-hard republican Ramraja Prasad Singh the candidate backed by the former rebels, lost to Yadav who was backed by the centrist Nepali Congress Party and it's alliance. Yadav secured 308 out of 590 votes cast in Nepal's constitutional assembly. AFP PHOTO/ Prakash MATHEMA (Photo credit should read PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP via Getty Images)