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2024/11/13 Political rivalry hurting the country The National and Labour parties have agreed to take politics out of infrastructure. This means that the successive governments delaying and halting projects while promising to start new ones were merely tactics designed to deny the previous government any credit and intentionally undermine its initiatives. This approach should extend to other sectors as well—such as education, healthcare, the economy, housing, and addressing social issues. Questions: 1- How can the two major parties claim to be serving the country and its citizens when they succumb to their rivalry, wasting money and depriving the country of valuable projects? 2- Where is the civil society and the public in these maneuvers? Why doesn’t civil society and the public draw a line in the sand for projects that were agreed upon by the previous government? Why do they allow the animosities between the two major parties to affect th