Clientelism

Iraqis vote on Monday to choose their provincial councils, the first such election in a decade and one which is expected to strengthen powerful Shiite pro-Iran groups.

The vote will take place with disillusionment widespread among the country's 43 million inhabitants, with endemic corruption eating away at the oil-rich nation.

We have experienced many natural disasters where the state was unable to rise to the occasion.

SYRIZA's pre-election campaigns were a latent promise to lead Greece back to the pre-crisis era, somewhere like 2007, before the time of "memorandums" and austerity. The delay in abandoning disastrous policies, persistence with the destruction of values and tolerance for antisocial behavior will have enduring consequences.

"Do you remember Koula's cousin who went to the US to study? Well, his best pal from college is the second cousin of a guy who is best friends with the guy they say will become Trump's chief of staff."

Clientelism as a tactic used by Greek political parties in their efforts to hold on to power is a thing of the past, according to Administrative Reform Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

State control over the media, censorship, political clientelism and corrupt links between the government, media owners and the media are prevalent in the Macedonian media, new research presented on Tuesday in Skopje by the Macedonian Institute for Media, MIM, claims.