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Kenyan politicians form coalitions based on strategy, not policy

The expatriate isn’t much of a political animal. His European home country’s democracy is so tediously settled that all he really does is turn up to a voting station every four years to cast his vote. 

He then goes to the pub and forgets about politics for the next four years, certain that his government isn’t going to actively destroy his life, or itself, as a government, collapse.

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