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...were widely publicized. Six members of India's Parliament, including two convicted of murder while in office, were furloughed from prison so they could cast votes (while questionable, this is not illegal). The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, a small central Indian political party, reportedly threw the support of its five MPs behind the Congress Party after its leader was promised a top post in at least one ministry. Congress Party members characterized some of the bargains made to lock in votes as routine political log-rolling. Despite a lot of finger-pointing, there has been no proof of bribery or other...
...monuments engraved with life-size portraits of underworld figures known by sinister names like the Doctor, the Russian or the Godfather. Senior government officials have leaked files to mafia suspects and the interior minister himself had to resign after he was found consorting with two dubious businessmen. Ten Bulgarian MPs were stripped of immunity from prosecution last year because of alleged involvement in corruption...
...vote was meant to have been held more than two hours earlier, but it was delayed by an unprecedented display on the floor of Parliament: during the afternoon debate session, a group of opposition MPs from the Bharatiya Janata Party displayed stacks of cash, asserting that one of them had been offered a bribe to abstain from the vote. The commotion disrupted the proceedings as Speaker Chatterjee insisted that the claim be made formally and in writing, rather than on the open floor. That was just the most serious of the allegations thrown against the Congress Party during...
...NATO bases are designed to be delivered by planes from the host country. That arrangement can be politically uncomfortable: when Belgian Defense Minister Pieter De Crem admitted for the first time in January that the country even housed U.S. weapons, the revelation caused a national controversy, with opposition MPs demanding - in vain - for them to be removed immediately. In 2001, when the Greek air force ordered a new fighter jet, it chose a model that could not carry the B-61, forcing the U.S. to withdraw its weapons...
...paper, Brown triumphed in both debates when the measure squeaked through by 315 votes to 306. Yet the government's knife-edge victory saw 36 Labour MPs, including former ministers, oppose the government, and relied on the support of nine members of the Northern Ireland Democratic Unionist Party. Brown and the DUP politicians have firmly rejected suggestions that their votes were secured through backroom deals. But there is no denying that government whips (MPs who act as the party's disciplinarians) worked up to the last minute cajoling and arm-twisting colleagues into toeing the party line...