O'BOYLE: The non-governmental organization, Alianza Civica, is presenting the results of its most recent study on vote buying.
The institute said it had also heard numerous allegations of vote-buying on election day, despite improved enforcement of rules banning this in the run-up to the vote.
Camacho warns that during this next week Mexico will see a last-minute vote-buying spree.
The courts may soon dissolve the PPP for alleged vote-buying in last December's election.
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In the past, vote-buying has been hard to prove because of the difficulty of obtaining evidence.
If gangsters end up getting elected because of their vote-buying power, say some scholars, so be it.
At least two candidates, including Ahmed Safadi, a major contender, were arrested for vote-buying the day before polling.
But first he wants to change Colombia's political institutions, and especially the corruption, vote-buying and cosseted excess of its politicians.
In North Sulawesi, accusations by opposition parties that Golkar engaged in vote-buying have led to a decision to hold a fresh ballot.
In his first term Lula's reluctance to share power with other parties led to a congressional vote-buying scandal that nearly destroyed his presidency.
But they do argue it can only reduce the present extent of vote-buying, which, by most accounts, reached a zenith in the election last year.
In particular, they object to a requirement, intended to cut the link between vote-buying and ministerial budgets, that all cabinet ministers must resign their parliamentary seats.
Meanwhile, the president of a criminal court just outside Amman ordered Tuesday the release of a local candidate in Salt after he was accused of vote-buying, Petra reported.
Nobody accused Anwar, but there was talk of rampant vote-buying.
Though social programs in Latin America are often associated with the vote-buying populist subsidies so familiar to economically-troubled countries like Venezuela and Argentina, the social fund now in the works in Brasilia is different.
Even the recent historic Mar. 4 poll for Thailand's upper house -- which people somehow thought would be clean -- saw dozens of putative Senators put on hold by the Election Commission subject to investigation into vote-buying allegations.
To the extent Mr. Cameron has a strategy, it is to delay the vote until 2017, buying him time to negotiate sufficient changes to the terms of Britain's membership to reconcile his party and the country to support staying in.
He had threatened to vote against the bill because it bars undocumented workers from buying health insurance with their own money.
While the information is backward-looking, the vote of confidence from central banks does help market sentiment when the buying is confirmed.
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The Bundesbank chief, whose concerns about straying from orthodox monetary policy prompted him to vote against and campaign openly against Mr Draghi's unlimited bond-buying plan last year, concluded by quoting approvingly from an interview Mr Draghi gave to the Financial Times in December.
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