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Nepal Election

Abolition of monarchy very soon, say Maoists

AFP, Kathmandu
Nepal's Maoists said yesterday the abolition of the Himalayan nation's monarchy was now just a "matter of procedure" as they held a commanding lead in the count from last week's landmark elections.
Up for grabs are 601 seats in an assembly that will decide the impoverished country's political future, and with the count edging towards the halfway mark, the former rebels are on track to win an absolute majority.
"The monarchy is finished There should be no doubt about that, it's just a matter of procedure," senior Maoist official Prababkher, who uses one name
told AFP.
He predicted that when the new assembly convenes, it will waste hide lime in declaring a republic.
We may not declare a republic on the first day of the first constituent assembly meeting. Declaring a republic may take a few days, but there is no doubt it will happen," said the Maoist official, a senior party membei with a seat in the new body
The Apnl 10 elections were a central plank of a 2006 peace deal under which the Maoists agreed to end their decade-long insurgency -- which left at least 13,000 people dead — and enter mainstream politics.
Although other mainstream parties had agreed with the Maoists
to sack the unpopular King Gyanendra, some politicians have been arguing that Nepal should keep some kind of monarch as a symbol of the neutrality of the country sandwiched between Asian giants China and India.
King Gyanendra ascended the throne after a palace massacre in 2001 — in which the former king and much of the rest of Nepal's core royals Wfert gunned dowti at a. family get-together by a drunken and suicidal prince who was furious at not being allowed to marry the woman he loved.
The monarch's status sank in 2005, when he fired the government and seized absolute power to fight the Maoists, only to finish up being sidelined by the peace deal.
Even parties seen as slightly sympathetic to keeping a monarch arc lagging behind the ultrarepublican Maoists in the vote count.
A total 208 seats have already been allocated, with the Maoists taking 114. Their nearest rival, the centrist Nepali Congress, has won 32 seats, the election commission said.
Officials said counting for the 335 scats to be awarded by proportional representation had also begun, with the results -- based on roughly eight percent of returns --so far showing a more equal spread among flic main parties.