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Display of power, fear mongering have created a personality cult

The co-principals in the Grand Coalition Government brought some fresh air on how the top leadership in this country can be managed: simple, down to earth, subject to making mistakes as we all do and ready to be corrected.

At times, the two could afford to disagree in public, sit together in private, hammer out their disagreements and come out with a solution that satisfied the public. They exhibited no cult of personality or some monarchical tendency to national leadership.

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