KATHMANDU, NEPAL – Following an early-morning brawl between lawmakers at the country’s Constituent Assembly (CA) and a nationwide strike on Tuesday, during which the streets of Nepal’s capital Kathmandu were emptied and shops remained closed, protests by various groups on Wednesday, and several days of failed negotiations between ruling and opposition parties, Nepali lawmakers met at the CA on Thursday in a final attempt to meet the 22 January deadline for adopting a new constitution.
The disruption ensured that yet another deadline was missed, one of many since elections in 2008 that ended the country’s monarchy.