The Election Commission of India has begun totaling the general election votes for the 543 seats in the Lok Sabha, or the Lower House of Parliament.the largest votes in the world in which almost 650 million people participated over more than six weeks.
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The count began at 8:00 a.m. (2:30 a.m. GMT) with the counting of the postal ballots, before continuing with the totalization of votes in the electronic machines in the totalization centers located in the half a thousand contested constituencies. , according to the Election Commission of India (ECI).
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This is the only phase of the electoral process that takes place simultaneously in this country, with almost one billion voters, which required seven phases for voting, held between April 19 and June 1, calling for groups of more than 100 million voters each.
The ECI, which publishes voting results as they are totaled, showed a tendency for a seat in the first minutes of counting for the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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A political force requires 272 seats to win a majority.
The Hindu nationalist leader has campaigned fiercely in search of more than 350 seats, which can give him a two-thirds parliamentary majority, and the superpower to push through constitutional reforms.
At the same time, this result will give a real look at the strength of Modi’s opponents, an opposition coalition baptized as the National Inclusive Alliance for the Development of India or simply INDIA, which includes the historic Indian Congress Party of the Nehru dynasty. -Gandhi.
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