United States drops in global corruption index on election aftermath

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United States drops in global corruption index on election aftermath
by Reuters
Thursday, 28 January 2021 08:04 GMT

BERLIN, Jan 28 (Reuters) - "Serious departures" from democratic norms were a core factor in driving the United States to its lowest in eight years on a global corruption index in 2020, watchdog Transparency International said on Thursday.

The group's annual report on business leaders' perceptions of corruption - which gave the United States a score of 67 out of 100, down from 69 in 2019 - also cited weak oversight of the country's $1 trillion COVID-19 relief package.

That put the United States behind Bhutan and Uruguay in 25th place, down from 23rd in 2019.

Referring to alleged conflicts of interest and abuse of office at the highest level, it described what it called the U.S. president's attempts to pressure election officials and incite violence in order to change certified vote counts as "among the most serious departures from ethical democratic practice."

Denmark and New Zealand continued to top the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), both with 88 points, while Syria, Somalia and South Sudan are still at the bottom.

Delia Ferreira Rubio, who chairs the global civil society group, said the COVID-19 pandemic was also a corruption crisis.

"The past year has tested governments like no other in memory, and those with higher levels of corruption have been less able to meet the challenge," she said in a statement.

Transparency International noted that Uruguay, with the highest score in Latin America, invests heavily in health care, which has helped its response to COVID-19, while low-ranked Bangladesh has seen corruption flourish during the pandemic.

It also said that countries with more corruption had shown the worst record on the rule of law during the crisis, including the Philippines, where it said the response to COVID-19 had brought major attacks on human rights and media freedom.

The group said that 26 countries had significantly improved their scores since 2012, including Ecuador, Greece, Guyana, Myanmar and South Korea. (Reporting by Emma Thomasson; editing by John Stonestreet)

its good to be a new banana republic ????

the dimocrats are declaring a vote for trump to be domestic terrorism

they are busy further weaponizing and corrupting and politicizing the fbi, doj, dhs and spy agencies in rounding up dissenters to their rule

even the pentagon has stopped all prior trump staffers from being named to advisory committees

the powers behind the façade of joe biden have even named peter strzok's wife to be head of the enforcement division of the sec


and those powers are the same group that abused power and set up and lied about the Russian hoax under Obama

unbelievable that the departments of government are politically corrupt as well as financially corrupt? no its not only believable but true

corruption? hell yeah

Amen - HF
They are making lists for AOC's re-education camps
They best get theri 'socialist paradise revolution ' done before 2022 -
if free elections are allowed

- they know their DPST/ccp marxist regime will be gone when their corruption is revealed.


The DPST/ccp cabal and LSM will subvert and use any means of perveted enforcement of their Government agencies to persecute and cancel from existence those they single out as 'enemies of teh State"
To them - any means are justified by the imposition of their marxist 'socialshit paradise revolution"

it is coming - and soon !

We dropped only two points?

the dimocrats are declaring a vote for trump to be domestic terrorism

they are busy further weaponizing and corrupting and politicizing the fbi, doj, dhs and spy agencies in rounding up dissenters to their rule

even the pentagon has stopped all prior trump staffers from being named to advisory committees

the powers behind the façade of joe biden have even named peter strzok's wife to be head of the enforcement division of the sec


and those powers are the same group that abused power and set up and lied about the Russian hoax under Obama

unbelievable that the departments of government are politically corrupt as well as financially corrupt? no its not only believable but true

corruption? hell yeah Originally Posted by nevergaveitathought

This. I'm also beyond tired of hearing the term "White Nationalist".

To hard to read must be corrept

Oh my goodness

mm got Two items correct in a month!
will He now call for teh resignation from Congress of AOC and Bernie?
Expectant posters are holding their breaths and turning "Red"!

3 items...you forget this

yupper banana s around every corner