Parties got another chance — and showed the same old mentality

Voters gave the traditional parties one last chance to salvage what could still be salvaged at the May 24th elections. Some of them, however, instead of seizing that chance with both hands and proving they had changed — that they were no longer prisoners of ideological habit — proceeded, from their very first moves, to squander the trust the public had placed in them.

The rows and backroom brawling inside the Selection Committee over the carve-up of parliamentary committees showed that nothing...