--Previous Message-- True, but Koraila cannot actually avoid that. Wasn't there a fairly comperehensive independent study completed recently which showed that something like 70% of the people wanted a monarchy. Furthermore, that the overwhelming majority of those who lived in the countryside did, just the areas targeted by the maoists. So if Koraila ditches the King he has no chance, they would probably go over on mass to the maoists. The ineptness of these politicians is quite amazing. What they should have done immediately after the revolution was to force the King to abdicate in favour of the Crown Prince's son and appointed a regency. There are several examples of that in Nepalese history. They didn't, so they now have this mess.
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: Well, these politicians are up to their
: usual
: tricks.
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: There is an election coming up, and as usual
: they need something to bribe the electors
: with. Supposedly the "king's vast
: lands" were going to be the basis of
: it, but they have probably found that there
: isn't very much that is commercial. Lots of
: forests, reserves and publicly used land, I
: bet.
:
: I am afraid that they are going to be quite
: dissappointed with this little scheme. The
: Nepalese Royal Family has never been
: privately very wealthy. A deliberate policy
: of a century of Rana rule, to ensure that
: they could not be independent actors.
:
:
: If only the King had not done so much to
: alienate the political elite of the country.
: That was very unwice. But PM Koraila argues
: that the king must have some kind of role in
: the future.
: An interesting story shows the mistrust
: http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=82042
: . I checked the royal site - and it's true.
: At one place the right birthday of the
: Princess is mentioned, in another the wrong
: one. http://www.nepalmonarchy.gov.np
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The newspaper columnists still haven't understood what their new law means. Crown Prince Paras *must* become King first, before his daughter can succeed. There is no indication that the law affects the line of succession after the first generation, i.e. anyone other than the children of the King. Until that is changed, the old system of succession remains as far as it concerns the second generation onwards.
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