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Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Comics against corruption

John Hooper
Monday December 12, 2005
The Guardian

Ask a silly question, and sometimes you get a very revealing answer. The Italian satirist, Beppe Grillo, recently put a full-page advertisement in the International Herald Tribune to promote a cause dear to his heart. In Italy, there is nothing to prevent convicted criminals from being members of parliament. And since the Italian political class is well stocked with convicted felons, quite a few are to be found either in the Rome legislature or the European parliament making laws to add to the ones they have broken.
Is there, asked Grillo, "another state in some part of the world in which 23 members of parliament have been convicted of a variety of crimes and yet are allowed to sit in parliament and represent their citizens?" (Apparently, there is: Uzbekistan.)
 
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