On July 21, 2008 (June 19, 2008 in the lunar calendar), Nepal's Constituent Assembly elected its first president, Ram Yadav. On July 21, 2008, Nepal's Constituent Assembly voted on July 21 to elect the first president in Nepal's history. The results of the vote announced that evening showed that the Nepalese Congress Party's presidential candidate, Ram Yadav, was elected. The Constituent Assembly declared Nepal a federal democratic republic at its first meeting on May 28, thus ending the nearly 240-year-old Shah dynasty. According to the preliminary framework agreement reached by Nepal's major political parties at the end of May on the country's future political arrangements, Nepal established a constitutional president after the implementation of a republic. The president is largely an empty office, and the prime minister holds executive power. Comments: The political situation of this country has been unstable