cronyism

Ganapathy accused Anwar of practising cronyism, nepotism, and favouritism within the party.

For those who remember the corruption and cronyism of the Obama administration's green energy program (part of the failed stimulus), Ocasio-Cortez wants to do the same thing.

So the possibilities of cronyism cannot be ruled out.

FIGHTING CRONYISM Since Bouteflika's ouster investigators have cracked down on alleged graft, zeroing in on the activities of prominent politicians and businessmen as they try to clear away two decades of cronyism under the former president.

Since first breaking a month ago, there are now almost daily developments and revelations, each adding to the perception of cronyism at work in the highest levels of government.

PESHAWAR -- Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) Chairman Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao said on Wednesday the federal government was promoting favouritism, nepotism and cronyism. In a statement issued from the party's central secretariat Watan Kor, he said the contract for Mohmand dam project had been awarded to the company owned by the son of the Advisor to PM on Commerce which amounted to conflict of interest.

He also commented on the decision of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Services Tribunal which held the incumbent and former speakers of the provincial assembly responsible for promoting nepotism and cronyism.

Is laissez-faire simply the first step on a kind of road to serfdom, where giant corporate syndicates achieve a parallel kind of economic planning every bit as pernicious as that feared by Hayek?" They conclude by determining there's a great deal to worry about: "[I]t is at least possible that cronyism is intrinsic to and not separable from capitalism" (emphasis in the original).

Peter Daly's article "Clerical cronyism and secrecy shielded McCarrick and others" (NCRonline.org/node/171703) incorrectly suggests that following the resignation of Cardinal Keith O'Brien in 2013, "the Scottish bishops' conference commissioned a report on the 'O'Brien affair,' written by Andrew McLellan, a minister in the Presbyterian Church of Scotland."

Assessment criteria had to be introduced into the civil service so that staff evaluations were objective and accurate, thus eliminating cronyism, said Anastasiades after being handed the report from the commission's president Giorgos Papageorgiou.

NNA - MP Hassan Fadlallah on Monday maintained that Hezbollah's Loyalty to the Resistance parliamentary bloc will endeavor to combat the system of cronyism in granting jobs inside the state institutions and administrations.

Tajikistan is mired in bribery, cronyism and embezzlement of public money.