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The note explores the evolutions and trend in the political system and leadership in Nepal as of 2011. Since the political crisis of April 2006, when the autocratic rule of King Gyanendra was brought to an end, Nepal has taken hesitant steps towards re-establishing peace and democracy. Under a Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in November 2006, the Maoist insurgency came to an end and there was agreement that its fighters would be demobilized and reintegrated. A Constituent Assembly was given the task of agreeing a new Constitutional dispensation for the country, which has already been declared a Republic.