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Political scavengers on the rampage amid crisis

This year has been a grim period of uncertainty and it is ending on a rather dull note. The inescapable effects of the novel coronavirus have caused 1.7 million deaths worldwide and curtailed most social freedoms, in a way rarely seen before. The pandemic has transformed social and political life and remade state institutions in a way never seen before.

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