Blog：Electoral thunderbolt for Nepal
September 29, 2009 at 11:51 pm • Posted in news • 8 Comments
Nepal has been rocked by an electoral thunderbolt.
As the Maoists surge towards victory in the elections to a constitutional assembly, even some of their leaders have expressed surprise at its apparent scale.
There are many ways to interpret what is going on.
It is as if the Nepali electorate, starved of the chance to vote for nine years and desperate for lasting peace, have cannily thought of a way to prevent the former rebels going back to conflict.
