The interim constitution calls for elections at the end of this year or early in 2005.
The proposals include the possibility of adopting an interim constitution and a new interim Iraqi leadership.
But the interim constitution Mr Bremer signed with members of the council is full of caveats favouring the coalition.
Even if the interim constitution gets signed, plenty more needs to be done to sort out the country's governance.
Fresh polls will require amendments to the interim constitution, but the only body able to amend it has been dissolved.
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Article 12 of the Interim Constitution of Nepal guarantees freedom of speech.
Iraq has a transitional administrative law that serves as an interim constitution, with a bill of rights guaranteeing freedoms to Iraqis unheard of 18 months ago.
The interim constitution does not approve any shifting of the borders, but the Kurds got concessions in most other areas, including being able to retain a militia separate from the Iraqi national army.
But senior U.S. officials said the options Bremer is taking to Iraq were designed to transfer more power to Iraqis, and that among them is for the U.S.-appointed Governing Council to create an interim constitution and install interim political leadership.
Now some in the administration want the White House, the president, to consider writing an interim Iraqi constitution, and evennaming an interim Iraqi appointed leader.
The rebels said their party was ready for talks with "all parties" to help form an interim government and prepare a new constitution.
The second option is to open it up and have an interim period dissolving parliament and just suspending the constitution.
The plan is for Mr. Bremer, by July, to form a "political council" of Iraqis that will serve as a shadow cabinet, appoint Iraqi interim ministers, and oversee the writing of a new constitution, educational reform, legal reform and privatization.
It is seen as a interim move before a referendum is held to include the recognition in the constitution.
The Kurds and the UIA dominated the interim government in 2005, and were the main forces in writing the constitution.
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At best, some soldiers might decide to replace General Abacha with an interim government that would try to pull the country together, draw up a new constitution and hold elections.
America will have no official say in the permanent constitution, though it will doubtless hope that many of the liberal values written into the interim document will have become indispensable by then.
Under an interim constitutional declaration, the military council retains the power to make laws and budget decisions until a new constitution is written and a new parliament elected.
Under an interim constitutional declaration released Monday, the military council retains the power to make laws and budget decisions until a new constitution is written and a new parliament elected.
Under an interim constitutional declaration, the military council said it retains the power to make laws and budget decisions until a new constitution is written and a new parliament is elected.
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