“ INEXPERIENCE OVER CORRUPTION? With all due respects Dr Koloamatangi, your assessment of a corrupted infested Executive Branch of the Government of Tonga seems like guess work in your part rather than "scientific political" analyses.
With all the weekly scandals this government has wasted away the country's scarce resources on, you could not separate innocent lack of experience from lawlessness. Led by a 28-year career politician (first-elected commoner) as Prime Minister who argued in Parliament recently to "put the law aside so Cabinet can implement their plans," is hardly a sign of inexperience to me. Nepotism is an unknown vocabulary to him, and usurping the king's authority by signing the CEDAW Treaty, deliberately breaking the Sabbath Law, and misuse of power and corruption at the highest level of government was "forgiven" by an unanimous vote in Parliament. Is this the "democracy" they brought to Tonga or was it meant to be totalitarianism?
This is a bunch of lawless and sick-minded commoners filled with greed and thirst for power to devour the country's tiny wealth by enriching their clans and friends. But your "scientific" radar calls it inexperience? Your data analyses seem to conveniently ignore these immoral acts against the general good of society thus overlooking the short empirical history of such a corrupted term in office.
Your liberal political leaning seems to have compromised your scientific duty to collect and analyze data without bias. I dare call you a "PÅhiva Sympathiser" rather than a political scientist. Corruption is dishonesty, and gross abuse of power, and let's call it for what it is. ”