Which country's free elections are giving Maoist's a majority, pro-capitalists a far second,

[ConsAreLiars]

and a more soviet-style communist party a third place? Have you heard anything about this in your news?

By the way, the labels, as usual, are deceptive, and the party's reflect interest groups and on-the-ground alliances rather than some sort of simplistic bogeyman abstractions.

[Ichingcarpenter]

1. Nepal

Right?

[ConsAreLiars]

3. Yeah, you've not seen it on TV, though.

Sort of a reminder that the news we get on corporate media is only what they want to use to influence our beliefs.

[MrModerate]

2. Not to mention a truly horrible monarchy . . .

I mean, the current (recently semideposed) king is only there because he was out taking a whiz when his nephew murdered the entire royal family, right?

[ConsAreLiars]

4. I thought he was the perp, but maybe just a co-conspirator. Here's the current news on the results:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hAW5DE4CcLruaLbrv17nC8By0kEQ

Maoists extend lead in Nepal polls, re-voting smooth

14 hours ago
KATHMANDU (AFP) — Nepal's former Maoists extended their strong lead on Thursday in landmark elections that will decide the nation's future, as voters in five constituencies peacefully recast their ballots.

"No problems have been reported" in the five areas, election official Dilliram Bastola said.

Voting irregularities on election day, April 10, meant re-polling was required in 22 out of 240 constituencies. Two others have already been re-polled and voting will be done in the other constituencies in coming days.

With vote counting under way in the dual first-past-the-post and proportional representation system, the Maoists had won a total of 116 seats out of a total of 220 seats already allocated, election officials said.

Their nearest rival, the centrist Nepali Congress, the nation's oldest party, has won just 33 seats for the constituent assembly that will rewrite the constitution and likely abolish the monarchy.

In counting for 335 seats to be awarded by proportional representation, results -- based on roughly 50 percent of returns -- showed the Maoists in the lead with 32 percent of the votes tallied.

(edit to add) You are right, it was another member of what seems to be a rather dysfunctional family of hereditary monarchs. From: http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gxSN5POp2YW6-aHX4VWTMtlLVZtg
"King Gyanendra ascended the throne after a palace massacre in 2001 -- in which the former king and much of the rest of Nepal's core royals were gunned down at a family get-together by a drunken and suicidal prince who was furious at not being allowed to marry the woman he loved."

Seems his main qualification for supreme leader may have been bloodline and a weak bladder.

We have seen what hereditary passing on of power can do to a country here in just one generation. 240 years of one family with relatively very little power is apparently more intolerable, if not worse, than two generations of a family that is utterly evil and extremely powerful.