Nepal Constituent Assembly
The Interim Constitution provides for a Constituent Assembly, which was charged with writing Nepal's permanent constitution. Under the terms of the Interim Constitution, the new constitution was to be promulgated by May 28, 2010; but the Constituent Assembly changed the deadline of May 28, 2010 by a year because of many points of disagreement between the political parties. On May 25, 2011, the Supreme Court of Nepal ruled that the 2010 extension of the Interim Constitution was not right. After May 29, 2011 the Constituent Assembly kept on extending the Interim Constitution by a few months at a time.
On May 28, 2012, Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai dissolved the Constituent Assembly after it failed to finish the constitution in its last time extension, ending four years of constitution drafting and leaving the country in a legal vacuum. Election of the new Constituent Assembly is due Spring 2013.
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