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    Cash-strapped leaders: Jabs for votes: Lebanon's oligarchs turn to Covid bribery

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    • Source: RTL Today - - Read: 76

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      Lebanon's cash-strapped leaders are bribing their base with free Covid-19 jabs ahead of next year's elections, in what observers say is the latest variant on an old corruption trick.

      The "vaccine for vote" system builds on decades-old patronage practices that have seen leaders buy their way into office by offering voters money or public sector employment.

      But with state resources stretched to their limit by a severe economic crisis and international aid dwindling due to a failure to deliver promised reforms, politicians are turning to Covid jabs to stock up on political capital.

      "Political forces are trying to directly or indirectly make themselves a part of the equation with regards to the vaccine campaign, primarily because it is a profitable investment," said a member of the state-run ...

       

       

      Read Full News: https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/1736080.html

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