Like the latest crises, the Snow Brand milk debacle carried a strong whiff of scandal about it.
This is a novel approach to strong-arming a scandal — and it may work.
Second, what is at stake in this election is whether the illiberal and authoritarian trend witnessed in the last three years under Vucic's rule will go on, with its so-called "fight against corruption", attacks on press freedoms, scandals, strong clientelism, failed economic recovery, historic revisionism and mass youth emigration.
Selectivity is particularly strong in matters of scandal.
While Chile's governing coalition – especially finance minister Felipe Larraín – has done much to strengthen the country's macroeconomic performance, it has also struggled to find a strong presidential candidate; a scandal followed an intense internal battle for succession, with the centre-right coalition forced to run its third-choice candidate.
The scandal aroused strong discontent from PCCW's minority shareholders and triggered an investigation by the local securities watchdog, which later blocked the deal.
"This pervasive and value-destroying scandal requires stronger independent leadership on the board," she said.
Much was made of the rape of Mellie, which occurred in arguably one of the Scandal's strongest episodes, and how it was, seemingly, deployed to curry sympathy for her.
Metropolitan Jonah immediately took a strong stance against the previous scandal and became a very public metropolitan, seeking to repair damage done by the previous scandal and bring the OCA into the public realm.
"Harriet is looking forward to delivering on the media regulation framework precipitated by Ed Miliband's strong leadership in the hacking scandal this summer.
We were running a positive campaign, based around my boss's clean sheet in the expenses scandal and a strong reputation as a constituency MP built up carefully over the years.
