Nepal abolishes monarchy
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Nepal’s constitutional assembly has voted in favour of abolishing the country’s 240-year-old Hindu monarchy and declaring it a republic.
AFP said the historic vote capped a peace deal between Maoist rebels and mainstream parties. The unpopular King Gyanendra’s palace would be turned into a museum.
“The sacrifice of thousands of Nepalese has been honoured today by us getting rid of the monarchy,” Maoist spokesman Krishna Bahadur Mahara told AFP.
Nepal’s fiercely-republican Maoists, who fought for 10 years to oust Gyanendra’s Hindu dynasty and create a secular republic, won the largest single bloc of seats in the assembly in elections last month.
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