Isaltino Morais, Mayor of Oeiras (a suburban town close to Lisbon), has seen is appeal on a corruption related sentence being dismissed.
Political corruption (namely at municipalities level) is a huge problem in Portugal, often being appointed as one of the root causes of the economic stagnation and the current crisis. As so, court sentences like this are important to signal the end of political impunity on these situations. But, it is still important that the last remaining appeal is also rejected by court and that he serves an effective jail sentence.
You can find a similar opinion to mine (but written in Portuguese) in this short article - http://www.portugalvistodefora.com/2011/06/um-raio-de-esperanca.html
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