Also, the peace process will involve a constitutional assembly, for which elections are due in June.
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But the rebels are pressing for guarantees that the results of the talks be recognised by a constitutional assembly.
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Seventy-seven percent of the public voted to hold parliamentary and presidential elections in September and to appoint members of a constitutional assembly from among the elected members of the next parliament to prepare Egypt's new constitution.
Whether in the past it was clear that the Bolivian president, Evo Morales, was following the Chavista blueprint in domestic politics by initiating a constitutional assembly and by promoting a revolutionary socialist regime, it was not at all clear as to what kind of foreign policy he would pursue.
The polls see Libyans elect a 200-member Constitutional Assembly, which will draft a constitution setting out a political framework for the country after more than four decades of rule under Muammar Gaddafi.
According to the Egyptian media, they hope to convince the military they protest against to stack the deck for the constitutional assembly in a way that prevents the Brotherhood from controlling the proceedings.
Soon, he called elections for a Democratic Constitutional Congress that would serve as a legislature and a Constituent Assembly.
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The arguments over constitutional reform began back in 2006 when a new assembly was elected to draft a new charter.
By then, campaigners for a northern assembly hope to have completed their scheme to set up a constitutional convention to devise a plan for northern regional government.
Though the U.S. is Ecuador's most important trading partner, Alberto Acosta, who was elected to the constitutional assembly and serves as its president, opposes negotiations for a free trade agreement with the U.S. Instead, he wants "a commercial agreement"--some kind of half-step toward free trade.
John Tomaney, a lecturer at Newcastle University who is a leading light in the North-Eastern Constitutional Convention, which is campaigning for an elected assembly for the region, sees strong parallels between the North-East and Scotland.
The constitutional changes required for a proper parliamentary system will need a two-thirds majority in the assembly and a referendum.
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