The coalition government has already passed a resolution to abolish the monarchy, subject to its candidates winning an inevitable majority in this week's constituent assembly election.

Or will his problems only mount as the long, staggered three-phase assembly election gets into round two?

After their excellent election result they will be keen to get the assembly up and running, maybe have another assembly election.

He later contested and won an assembly election as an independent candidate.

However, it lost the next assembly election in 2013.