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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Correa faced resistance from the national legislature, which was dissolved in late November by the newly elected constitutional assembly--62% of whose members belong to Correa's party.
In particular, there is an accusation that the underlying aim is to enable the constitutional assembly - currently dominated by Islamists - to write an Islamist constitution for Egypt.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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But even if new laws are ratified by the mainly male constitutional Loya Jirga (grand assembly) that will consider the document, there is some doubt the measures will be enforced, correspondents say.
Mr Sarkozy has promised constitutional changes aimed at strengthening the power of the assembly.
The arguments over constitutional reform began back in 2006 when a new assembly was elected to draft a new charter.
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.
Abe is on a mission to reinvigorate the Japanese economy, win control of the upper house of the Diet (National Assembly) in summer elections and push through constitutional revision to remove constraints on Japan's military.
Soon, he called elections for a Democratic Constitutional Congress that would serve as a legislature and a Constituent Assembly.
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Controversy around constitutional reforms in Bolivia has been in high gear since the constituent assembly was elected in mid 2007.
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.
The constitutional changes required for a proper parliamentary system will need a two-thirds majority in the assembly and a referendum.
In a document seen by Politics Show Wales, assembly commission chief legal advisor Keith Bush says there was not enough time for the constitutional process to be completed.
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Reflecting on the year in politics, he said 2012 had been the year in which the National Assembly for Wales had started using new law-making powers - "the latest step on our constitutional journey".
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