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Editorial: Unburdened for all the wrong reasons

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The key political event of this week was the change of four ministers of the Rama cabinet, all of them of the Socialist Party. Two of the ministers have key positions: that of Interior Affairs and that of Healthcare. These two have been for most of the time subject to multiple accusations for corruption, abuse of power and even connections to crime. The other two portfolios that of Welfare and Local Governance are of secondary importance and seem to have been done only to de-escalate the dramatic effect of the change itself. The most striking change of course is that…

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