An interim constitution was approved Monday, the day before the election, and will take effect after the new government takes over.

They are believed to be within weeks of agreeing on an interim constitution to rule the country for the next few years.

It is thus questionable in what way the interim constitution defined a state.

The interim constitution calls for at least a quarter of the assembly seats go to women.

An interim constitution approved last spring says elections must be held by the end of January.

Each level of government derives its powers from the interim Constitution.

For one thing, they say, the Iraqi interim constitution mandates the timing.

The country has been operating under an interim constitution negotiated before the 1994 elections.

A final vote of the curiae carried the interim constitution.

This has been confirmed by Nepal's interim constitution in 2007.