Kathmandu (dpa) - Nepal's government on Monday gave the Constituent Assembly another three months to complete the country's new constitution amid political squabbling over the system of governance and the electoral system that should be adopted.
The extension - the third in a year - came just days before an August 31 deadline. The 601-member Constituent Assembly was first elected in 2008 and was given a two-year mandate to write a charter.
Its new deadline was set for November 30.
Also on Monday, Nepal swore in its newly elected prime minister, Baburam Bhattarai, who now faces the challenge of overseeing the drafting of the new constitution and completing the integration of former Maoist combatants.
Some 19,000 former Maoist combatants are confined to seven encampments in different parts of Nepal. Their integration has been a major bone of contention between the political parties.
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Author: Pratibha Tuladhar
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