spoils of office

While formally allied in the campaign, they will need to agree on how to divide the spoils of office.

“This group that has now seized power” was waging war to cling to the spoils of office, he said, including palaces in Moscow and on the Black Sea.

Then there are the spoils of office.

Politicians across party lines treat a bloated public sector as the spoils of office.

Under his successors, Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma, Mandela’s African National Congress party began to splinter into factions that fought over ideology, policy and, increasingly, the spoils of office.