The really important thing is that cronyism is warping policy: by treating contracts as prizes to be handed to their friends, administration officials are delaying Iraq's recovery, with potentially catastrophic consequences.
Since he took power, he has pushed through a new constitution to strengthen the presidency, delayed local elections until his Party of the Regions could consolidate its grip, and pursued prosecutions against political rivals, of whom Ms Tymoshenko is just one.Most sharply, corruption and cronyism have reached a new intensity.
After years of delays and charges of political cronyism, a private contractor, Parsons Infrastructure and Technology, opened its 30 new testing stations last month.
However, accusations of corruption and cronyism have prompted calls for a delay on tomorrow's votes.
Here is a story that the mainstream media has largely ignored; a tale of cronyism, special interests, law-breaking, bureaucratic delays, union complaints, last-minute changes in the law solely designed so that Los Angeles could keep federal grant money, panicked spending of federal money, and ultimately more than $800 million of your tax dollars.
160 pages documenting financial crisis, graft, incompetence, nepotism, cronyism, public works project overruns and delays, service lapses, infrastructure failure and public disapproval of the current administration and the 2016 bid.
The construction delays and cost overruns were attributed to poor planning, many design changes, and cronyism.
Political cronyism is rife.
