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Constituent Assembly election 2014
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 Nine months after the Constituent Assembly (CA) lapsed without writing a constitution, four of Nepal’s major political forces signed an agreement to hold elections for another Constituent Assembly (CA) under a government led by Chief Justice Khil Raj Regmi.

The parties — NC; UCPN (Maoist); CPN (UML); UDMF, aim to hold the elections by June 21, but the agreement contains provisions to postpone the election date to December if necessary.

Mr. Regmi, who will take a temporary leave from the Supreme Court, will form an 11-member council of ministers to hold elections.

The new Assembly will have 491 members — 240 to elected through direct (first past the post) election; 240 through proportional representation; and 11 nominated by the Cabinet.

The parties also decided to retain the electoral constituencies delineated for the last Assembly election in 2008.