Wednesday 21 September 2011

An interesting and very relevant question


Should Government members be criminally responsible for bad country management? This is a very interesting and relevant question, especially in Portugal, where a number of situations is becoming visible, namely on huge budgetary deficits that were hidden and very doubtful top management nominations in state-hold companies. I am actually for a different wording. I am for holding legally responsible politicians not on bad management (a dubious expression on its own, subject to subjective interpretation, difficult to prove and that might be used to obscure political intentions), but on its processes - I am for legally prosecuting hiding relevant information from the public, for actually going after corruption cases,... And most of it is already put into law - we don't need new ones on this, we just need to act on them!

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