COMMENT | Modus operandi to manage intra-coalition dissent needed

COMMENT | Dissensions are inevitable among diverse partners in a coalition government.

This is to be expected, more so when some partners have had a history of hostility.

To expect previously feuding parties to harmonise like a choir in a new ruling partnership is unrealistic.

However, to allow even occasional bouts of fractiousness to mar the public image of a newly established ruling coalition is insensible.

More so when there is an opposition coalition that is ravening to take over and willing to feed rumour mills about plots supposedly afoot to effect a change of government.

With a public susceptible to conspiracy theories and the availability of social media to give these stories circulation, it would be wise for the ruling government to...