Detail Bad Smells; Corruption in France   Oleh:  [s.n] Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 400 no. 8753 (Oct. 2011), page 52-53. Topik: Politics; Presidents; Investigations; Kickbacks Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.68 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel The most damaging blow to President Nicolas Sarkozy this week might appear to be the loss of his majority in the Senate. On September 25th control of France's upper house swung to the left for the first time in the Fifth Republic. This was not a direct test of popular sentiment: the senatorial electoral college is made up mainly of local and regional councillors, and the Socialists have won many local elections in recent years. But it was a symbolic knock for Mr Sarkozy just seven months before a presidential election, and it has crushed morale in his party. Yet it is the fall-out from a slow-crawling corruption case that could prove more wounding. Over the past week, a judicial inquiry into what is known as the Karachi affair has closed in on allies of Mr Sarkozy. The investigation is linked to kickbacks on the sale of submarines to Pakistan in 1994, as well as to a 2002 bomb attack in Karachi in which 11 French naval technicians were killed. On September 22nd Nicolas Bazire, a senior executive at LVMH, a luxury-goods group, who was Mr Sarkozy's best man at his wedding in 2008 to Carla Bruni, was charged with "complicity in the misuse of public money". The previous day Thierry Gaubert, another businessman and former colleague of Mr Sarkozy, had been charged in connection with the investigation. Both deny the accusations. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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