Shirish,

It’s all speculative. Yours is as good as mine.

The legitimacy thing is an old theory (it’s running for three years already), which still might be valid.

However, I think there are two new factors that might mitigate it.

One, the popular legitimacy Maoist just earned. Then, looking at the pattern (Koiralas’ or NC’s performance in the election), it looks like the voters will be deeply disappointed if Maoist crowns the same old man again. Voters wanted change at any cost. They did not care about lejitimesi sejitimesi. If they cared about this imaginary thing called lejitimesi, they wouldn’t vote the way they did.

So, rewarding Koirala might work against Maoist actually.

A popular image like the victorious Narahari Acharya instead of morally defeated and indirectly rejected face like GP Koirala might win the both fronts, the voters and the international community.

Make that three fronts. This Nepe will be happy too.

So I am curious to see how Maoist would assess the value of GP Koirala and read voters’ mind.

Nepe