Sentence examples for constituent assembly elections from inspiring English sources
Winning the constituent assembly elections in 2011, it called for a national unity government, and proceeded to share power with two left- and liberal-leaning parties – the Congress for the Republic and the Democratic Forum – within what came to be known as the Troika.
In the same manner that thousands of protestors flocked into Avenue Bourguiba on 14 January to prompt the unceremonious exit of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, thousands of voters flocked to polling booths on 23 October and queued for hours to cast their vote in Tunisia's historic constituent assembly elections.
This forces the postponement of November's constituent assembly elections.
In 2008, constituent assembly elections were held with the purpose of drafting a new constitution within the following two years.
The Constituent Assembly elections, which were scheduled for 22 November, have been indefinitely postponed because of serious differences between the major political parties.
The Maoists became the largest party in Nepal after the constituent assembly election in 2008 and have since led the government twice.
In October 2004, a 77-member constituent assembly elected a 15-member Executive Committee in the movement's first session of internal elections.
That will be done by a constituent assembly elected by universal suffrage early next year, leading in turn to the constitution's endorsement by referendum and to the direct election, finally, of a full-blown government.
Nepal and Libya are preparing to hold constituent-assembly elections, which should lead to new constitutions being adopted.
They have threatened to pull out of the government and boycott constituent-assembly elections planned for November unless Nepal abolishes its monarchy and becomes a republic.Few countries in Asia could be more different than a Himalayan kingdom of nearly 30m people and a half-island in the Indonesian archipelago of around 1m.
In Nepal 33 parties rejected a constituent-assembly election in November, including one faction of the once-ruling Maoists, who staged a menacing "active boycott".
