End of Monarchy
By an overwhelming majority, on Friday, 28 December 2007, the makeshift Nepalese Parliament voted to abolish the Monarchy in favor of a Republic. The abolition was officially approved on 28 May 2008, by a vote among elected members of the Constituent Assembly.
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“People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.”
—Friedrich Engels (1820–1895)