WHATEVER the eventual outcome of the election fracas, it has certainly been a messy and distressing two weeks since the May 29 polls.
With political parties and their candidates jostling for power, positions and paisa, the coalition talks had degenerated into a tangled web of contradictions, mistrust, brinkmanship, arrogance, populism, intransigence, greed and self-interest.
Disorder was the order of the day.
Stir all these noxious ingredients in the pot, add a pinch of divisive race-baiting and factionalism, and you end up with a recipe for electoral
