As a first step, CARP had proposed convening a constituent assembly.

PIP was firmly convinced that the constituent assembly was the right mechanism.

Accordingly, PDP had proposed convening a constituent assembly to settle the status issue.

Certain circles in Puerto Rico were currently talking about convening a constituent assembly.

In the end, the establishment of a Constituent Assembly merely weakens all other institutions.

When they entrusted him with responsibility for convening the constituent assembly, the Bolsheviks knew what they wanted to do with the constituent assembly, because they knew Stalin as a person who would not stop at anything.

In Tunisia, the election in 2011 brought 49 women into the 217 seat Constituent Assembly.

Some members of the National Constituent Assembly, journalists, bloggers, lawyers and activists were harshly beaten.

In 2003, both houses of Puerto Rico's Legislative Assembly had approved reports in favour of elections to form a constituent assembly.

In Venezuela, Chávez has strengthened his political position through a Constituent Assembly that changed the constitution.

The muddled results of a Constituent Assembly that Morales had convened to amend the constitution reflected this reality.

The preamble and paragraph 4 of draft resolution A AC. 109 2004 L.7 referred to a constituent assembly.

Given that the elections to the Constituent Assembly needed to ensure their representation, a complex system of quotas was devised.

A constituent assembly could ensure broad participation by offering all social groups an opportunity to be involved in the process.

No such constituent assembly could therefore be expected to alter the nature of Puerto Rico's relations with the United States.

The challenges that face Prime Minister Prachanda, the incoming coalition government, and the Constituent Assembly, are immense, and trust is fragile.

The Constituent Assembly approach has, so far, proven to be very effective in helping these new caudillos to consolidate their power.

Do you have concerns, that in case the National Constituent Assembly (NCA) approves this bill, your caricatures will soon be censored?

The Constituent Assembly, which should build national unity and democratic legitimacy, has been turned into a mechanism for division and absolute power.

The Islamist party Ennahdha won 41 per cent of the votes, and gained 89 out of 217 seats at the constituent assembly.

After the 2011 revolution, he was appointed as an interim prime minister before leaving office after the constituent assembly election of 2011.

The All Russian Constituent Assembly (Всероссийское Учредительное собрание, Vserossiiskoe Uchreditelnoe sobranie) was a constitutional body convened in Russia after the October Revolution of 1917.

While experts are busy trying to explain the Maoists unprecedented triumph, much hope rests on the newly elected members of the 601 seat Constituent Assembly.

In Libya, a first draft of the electoral law reserved 10 of seats in the constituent assembly for women, but the quota was later abandoned.

Two thirds of Bolivians are dissatisfied with the way the Constituent Assembly has carried out its work, and a majority believes that the constitutional text is illegal.

Along with the success of socially diverse candidates fielded by the Maoists, the Constituent Assembly that was elected in April represents an unprecedented array of marginalized groups.

They point to his participation in the Montoneros Movement, which is a collection of bloggers that are publicly supporting the controversial Constitution passed in the Constituent Assembly.

The Association welcomed the proposal to convene a constituent assembly that would make it incumbent upon the United States Congress to ensure Puerto Rico's full political empowerment.

At that point, the constituent assembly and government could decide whether to switch to a presidential form of government or establish a parliamentary system on a permanent basis.

The GNC was originally to be charged with appointing a Constituent Assembly to draw up Libya's new constitution, but the National Transitional Council announced on 5 July that the Assembly would instead be directly elected at a later date.

Tunisia may give us an example of the opposite scenario a real constitutional compromise supported by an overwhelming majority (reflected in a 200 16 vote in the National Constituent Assembly).

Let us call its constituent evils by their ancient names.

On December 12, the national constituent assembly elected human rights activist Moncef Marzouki, who was imprisoned, and exiled under Ben Ali' regime, as the new President of the Republic of Tunisia.

These representative bodies (and not their constituent estates) in turn were represented in the assembly that came to be known as Staten generaal (a plurale tantum), or Algemene Staten (General States).

PDP was confident that a constituent assembly would launch its work in January 2005 with a view to enabling the Puerto Rican people to opt for the political status that they preferred.

In that context, convening a constituent assembly had been proposed as a way of establishing a democratic mechanism that would allow the people of Puerto Rico to decide on their political future.

Meanwhile, public support for the idea of convening a constituent assembly had been growing despite the unwillingness of the leadership of the governing party (which maintained power by having the necessary votes in both houses of the Legislative Assembly) to launch a process of decolonization.

7. Further welcomes the successful holding, on 30 August 2001, of the elections for the East Timor Constituent Assembly and the appointment, on 20 September 2001, of the all East Timorese Second Transitional Government

Is it exploring uncharted territory? Or are its constituent nation states drifting apart?

Constituent service does also take place in the form of the Petition Committee.

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England.

The UN has encouraged and facilitated the process through quiet good offices during the last years of the conflict, human rights monitoring, assistance to the Constituent Assembly election, and monitoring arms and armies during the transition.

It recently witnessed a series of protests, by the jobless on April 7, by civil society activists on April 9 (Tunisia's Martyrs' Day), and by some members of the National Constituent Assembly (NCA) on April 10.

In that case, Egypt s first free and fair election would give rise to a constituent assembly that immediately provided a democratic base for the government, as well as for efforts to amend or re write the constitution.

The king was compelled to hand power back to the political parties, while a peace agreement emerged that ended the conflict, bringing the Maoists into an interim parliament and government and promising elections to a Constituent Assembly.