Moderates must reclaim political debate

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“It’s necessary to have the conversations shift back to the moderates,” he said. The many groups that came out over the past weeks calling for a dialogue should try to merge into one to make their voices louder and take the wind out of the sails of the extremist activists.
No contentious issue should be brought to the table at the initial stage and the focus should be on establishing mutual trust and restarting the conversation.
In the medium term, all stakeholders should be allowed to take part in the dialogue, as it has been proven over the past eight years or so that when one side tries to impose the rules on the other, it will not work.
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