Nepal's new Parliament is set to pass a proclamation drastically curtailing the monarch's power and bringing the army under parliamentary control. "The seven-party alliance is making a draft proclamation to be presented in Parliament that would give full autonomy to the house," Finance Minister Ram Sharan Mahat said. Parliament was reinstated after King Gyanandra handed back power at the end of April. Weeks of anti-royal mass protests across the country left at least 19 dead, forcing the King to end direct rule he seized 14 months ago. Parliament has matched a cease-fire by Maoist rebels and says it will elect a body to redraft the 1990 constitution.