Just some quick thoughts.

Elusivecat-jyu,

Republic is a national resolve already. Pro-republic leaders or not, it will be there. So I would emphasize in other criteria (diverse representation, individual and collective competence and so on) than a single pro-republic criterion.

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Pyari_kt-jyu,

If you are wishing for the Maoist to lose the election absolutely, it is already too late.

What I am getting from Nepal tells me that a significant fraction of the nationwide votes is going to the Maoists.

So the question left is this: what do you say to those who shall be voting for the Maoists ? Stupid ? I don’t think you can.

And one remark on your note. Why are you using the word “rape” so liberally and so blatantly ? Can you not use less graphic words like “sexual abuse” ?

Then, I think you are FACTUALLY WRONG about your claim regarding Maoist in this particular kind of abuse. Can you produce any report/data to support your claim ? Any particular news, report ?

The fact is, for ideological reason (use/abuse of sex for any purpose is too bourgeois for communists), Maoists are less likely to commit sexual abuse than, let’s say, the security forces would. And all the reports I have read so far support this.

However, your claim and assumption is quite opposite.

Hence my curiosity about your claim.

Nepe