Nepe jeee Maoist have repeatedly said that they wont give in their weapons if and during the elections to the constituent assembley were held.........it just goes to show their sincerety to negotiations. Ideally the way to marginalise them for the political parties and militrary(ie king ) to unite and do what the americans did in Iraq......hold elections and have the democratic process move forward.......but these politicians for whom i have voted for in the past, were so incompetent....that they dont realize that not going for elections means handing the maoist a propaganda war and giving the king a reason to take over....... at least its better in the short run that the king took over, we want peace....hopefully peace and democracy can co exist..... otherwise peace and a maoist republic wont be a bad option either