"Political parties whose mayors are involved in corruption are not penalized at the polls "
"Political parties whose mayors are involved in corruption are not punished at the polls. Even worse: the parties involved in misconduct can expect to suffer no penalties in the elections, even if proceedings are initiated court.
This is the result of a recent study prepared for the Alternatives Foundation (The electoral consequences of the municipal corruption scandals 2003-2007) by researchers and Pablo Rivero Gonzalo Fernandez-Vazquez. 8 ...)
pessimistic conclusions because they represent a serious setback for the politicians to control the electoral process and because they question the ability of the electoral mechanism and not to discriminate between good and bad candidates, but also to fulfill the role most basic to expel from the political arena that could have been used illegally in the commons. In
The investigation did not analyze the reasons that lead citizens to exempt at the polls dishonest candidates, but merely to confirm this phenomenon undoubtedly weakens the quality of democracy in Spain. (...)
The terms of the controversy are, basically, if corruption is not punished at the polls by issues of cultural or if the punishment is asymmetrical, so that only some political parties would be exempt while everybody else will suffer an electoral penalty. "(Joaquin ESTEFANÍA OPINION: No punishment. The Country, Sunday, 06/03/2011, p. 21 )
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