Malta has a highly polarised electorate, and a small minority party garnering possibly 1.5% of the vote. The usual result is a dictatorship of the majority party in government, with resultant common abuses in finances and the environment due to nepotism and clientelism.

In larger countries like Britain and Germany, coalition governments prove beneficial to the people, with self-control being exerted on the majority party in government. The minority coalition party can even bring down the government by withdrawing its parliamentary support.

The latter scenario will not work in Malta, because our small minority parties are too small. But if a small minority party were taken aboard into a voluntary coalition, without bringing down the government, it could exert sufficient pressure toregulate most matters of policy, psychologically.

It may be time for our major parties to discuss the last option, to nip all matter of corruption in the bud, to care better for our environment, and to regulate most matters of interest and policy.

There is a diminished risk for this option in our Parliament, since a majority government cannot be ousted or threatened, except psychologically.

Maybe we could give a try to such a novel way of governing our country for the good of all our people. Majority parties can afford to share their power, at no great risk to themselves, except good sense.

Power corrupts, it is said, and absolute power corrupts absolutely including anybody in the business of government. In the same way as monopolies control the market absolutely.

Competition is healthy and benefits the consumer even politically.