Interesting thesis …

… A Tale of Two Coups - L'Ombre de l'Olivier.

…allowing the losers to come up with one way after another to try and delegitimise an election they lost is bad on its own because the ability to “throw the bums out” is a key feature of democracy. If voters can’t trust that their votes will be respected they are likely to resort to other methods of expressing their displeasure with the current set of rulers and that is something that these rulers may come to regret. The good news is that the New AG seems to be doing his job and turning over any number of stones that various parties would have preferred remained unexamined.

The losers in this case did it because they thought they could get away with it, which is the same reason most people commit crimes.