alson, i don't trust the parties. they had similar street protests a few years ago and when ser bahadur deuba was appointed prime minister by the king he said ..'now i am in power; the mistakes made by the king previously appointing suryabahdur thapa as PM of nepal has been corrected'. kasto ironic!!! and after he came to power, he did shit!!! maoists cannot be trusted. their ideologies sound great and i support their causes, but their practise is more or less contradictory to waht they say they believe in. and lets not even get started about the monarchy. so with these three groups in conflict in one another, there is a lotttt of tension. i cannot really predict what is going to happen. power is a highly addictive thing u know. so i don't think any groups will be willing to give up. the only reason why parties and maoists agree to come to some kind of consensus was because they had a common enemy. if, hypthetically speaking, king goes out of the picutre, there will probalby be a huge tension between the two groups for central authority. so my safest hypothesis is that nepal is not becoming a nirvana state anytime soon. what do u predict alson?