Did public opinion actually change with those scandals - or did the public’s tolerance merely reach a natural and predictable tipping point? Perhaps we are both mincing words since a downward change in public opinion and exhaustion of the public’s tolerance can both prove fatal.
No, you referred to what he did in the latter part of his reign. He did nothing different to what he did in the first years of his reign. My point is that the public perception of his acts changed, not his acts.
But you just said “What caused his downfall was the Noos scandal ( even if denied if is common opinion that the RH knew what was going on), the Botswana scandal….”
Manuel , these are misdeeds from the latter part of his reign.
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