Shadow Play Is Here To Stay Kuala Lumpur (Dec 8 2021) Throughout the world this year, leaders have stepped down due to failure in their administration or accepting responsibility for accusations of corruption and fraud. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s government resigned on Jan 15 following a parliamentary inquiry revealing that officials at the tax service department had wrongly accused families of fraud over childcare subsidies. This led about 10,000 families to financial ruin as they were forced to repay tens of thousands of euros each resulting in unemployment, bankruptcies and divorces. Estonia’s Prime Minister Juri Ratas resigned on Jan 13 over a corruption inquiry and was replaced by Kaja Kallas, who became the first female prime minister in the country. This following a probe into Ratas’s ruling Center Party and its links with an Estonian businessman, Hillar Teder, to support the party with up ...