Ridiculous assertion on election result

IN his letter commenting on the election results, Mark Wakefield (June 16) suggested Fianna Fáil no longer has a mandate to govern as “the election statistics show how the people feel about the way our great nation has been run for the past 12 years”.

To say these election results show the public are unhappy with how the country was run for the past 12 years is ridiculous.

If that is the case, why have the public voted FF into power for the past 12 years? And why did the public reaffirm their support for this government only two years ago in the general election?