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More than three months after it became a republic, Nepal will hopefully have a new government soon, with the elec-tion for prime minister slated for August 15. The Constituent Assembly declared Nepal to be a "federal democratic republic" at its first meeting on May 28, ending the nearly 240-year-old Shah Dynasty as well as Nepal's monarchy, which had ruled the Himalayan country on and off for more than 2,000 years.