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Just as US President Franklin D. Roosevelt emerged as a ray of hope during the worst economic crisis in America’s history, Macron is spreading optimism among a French public disillusioned by a combination of violence, mediocrity, corruption scandals, and ideological confusion.
In the weeks leading up to the elections, it seemed that the public had grown weary of a prime minister who had been in office long enough to be corrupted by the arrogance of power and tainted by a raft of petty
scandals.
The French media have continued to investigate other potential
scandals.
In 1988, new transparency rules were enacted in response to a series of political
scandals
the previous year.
But victims often do not understand that this actually tends to contain potentially embarrassing scandals, by preventing real – that is, accountable – law enforcement from getting involved.
With myriad judicial and corruption
scandals
distorting the electoral process, there is now a growing disconnect between justice and democracy.
While recent
scandals
have put China’s princelings under a harsh media spotlight, they have been hot commodities for Western companies seeking to capitalize on their guanxi (connections) in order to secure multi-billion dollar transactions.
But, unlike Venezuela and Nicaragua, where corruption
scandals
are a pox on political life, Morales has tried to govern “cleanly” and, for the most part, has succeeded.
India’s LBWNEW DELHI – A casual reader of India’s newspapers for the last several weeks would be forgiven for wondering whether the country was suddenly bereft of political controversy, sex scandals, or official corruption – normally the standard headline fare here.
After years of corruption scandals, political dramas, and protest marches, this was manna from heaven – a story combining cricket, the national obsession, with vice, the national weakness.
The clumsy Jerusalem declaration cannot save Netanyahu’s current coalition government from massive corruption
scandals
and irreconcilable internal conflicts.
And Berlusconi, consumed as he is with defending his difficult position as the main protagonist in a seemingly endless soap opera of sex scandals, is not capable of reining in such blatant provocations on the part of the Lega Nord.
Though competent and tough, Rousseff faces voter fatigue after 12 years of PT rule, which many will remember, perhaps unfairly, for corruption
scandals
and the national team’s 7-1 drubbing by Germany in this year’s World Cup.
Every country has had its own series of high-profile public health or safety
scandals.
After bank bailouts, Bernard Madoff-type financial scandals, and a housing bubble that left Americans high and dry, it is as if the collective unconscious is recasting life on yachts and perfectly manicured golf courses as distasteful, and thrifty, often rural simplicity as a virtuously cleansing relief.
The US currently is witnessing several corruption
scandals.
And, during his recent visit to Mexico, Pope Francis called on the country’s leaders – several of whom (including the president and his wife) are embroiled in conflict-of-interest
scandals
– to fight endemic corruption.
About a decade ago, after the Enron and WorldCom scandals, America’s stock-market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), considered requiring that companies allow qualified shareholders to put their director nominees on the company-paid election ballot.
America's corporate
scandals
have undermined the market's moral standing, while the end of the Internet bubble has weakened its economic credibility.
The time seems right to leave behind the
scandals
and stupidities of the past.
But the wait for war adds to uncertainties that already weigh on the American, and the global, economy:uncertainties arising from America's looming fiscal deficit, due to macroeconomic mismanagement and a tax cut that the country cannot afford;uncertainties arising from the unfinished "war on terrorism";uncertainties associated with the massive corporate accounting and banking scandals, and the Bush Administration's half-hearted efforts at reform, as a result of which no one knows what America's corporations are worth;uncertainties connected to America's massive trade deficit, which has reached all- time records.
Despite six years of economic decline and explosive corruption scandals, the country has a thriving free press and a strong independent judiciary, which could bring long overdue political and cultural changes to the country.
But if growth were higher and unemployment were falling, such
scandals
would not be treated as such a drama.
In response to the recurrence of well-publicized and highly damaging
scandals
in recent years, many universities and some entire national research funding agencies now convene “institutional review boards” to deal with breaches of what has come to be known as “research ethics.”
Confronted by multiple charges of corruption against his government, the prime minister’s address to the nation partly sought to divert attention from the
scandals
by focusing, bizarrely, on a litany of other problems, from high inflation and the Naxalite rebellion to persistent malnutrition and terrorist attacks.
But, in the last decade, a series of
scandals
and crises – involving public safety, adulterated food and drugs, and environmental pollution – has thoroughly destroyed what little credibility lingered.
In fact, Putin’s recent address was replete with references to Russia’s weaknesses – specifically, “interethnic tensions,” local-government authorities “constantly shaken by corruption scandals,” an incompetent administration, capital flight through economic “offshore activity,” and the inability to achieve “technology breakthroughs.”
In South Korea, the IMF urged the sale of the country’s banks to American investors, even though Koreans had managed their own economy impressively for four decades, with higher growth, more stability, and without the systemic
scandals
that have marked US financial markets with such frequency.
The ripple effect of these
scandals
– which include allegations of accepting some $300,000 in gifts over the course of a decade – could engulf an already-fragile political dynamic in Israel, where rivals within Netanyahu’s coalition hold tremendous sway over him and his Likud faction.
Corruption
scandals
in some countries added fuel to the fire, and a new crop of center-right governments was elected.
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