They embraced open government as a last recourse, as saying, "We understand we don’t have legitimacy anymore, but you guys figure it out." [laughs] It does help that, at the time, the person who primarily championed this idea was independent. He had no parties, and his staff and the other previous digital ministers that I’m an understudy of, they were all independent non-partisan people.

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