Since its inception in 2006, it has suffered from delays, weary donors and claims of grave corruption and political meddling.
The socialists told Rajoy on Saturday that they had abstained for the good of the country and not to "back your odious reforms nor to pardon the grave corruption" within the PP.
While he has denied the allegations, and Indian officials have sought to suspend the deal, the controversy is just the latest reminder of the grave corruption epidemic afflicting the country.
The toolkit's opening letter references Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah and Amadou Diallo, two black American Muslim men who were killed by police, and reminds Muslim communities and leaders that "the Quran is clear in respect to the sanctity of life: 'Whoever kills a soul except for a soul or grave corruption in the earth, it is just as him killing all of humankind.'".
Mr Dimbleby notes the gangsterism of government at all levels, the brazen rackets and the cradle-to-grave corruption that Russians must negotiate to survive.
Reconstruction aid, Mr. Salih said, "will help Iraqis throw off the shackles of generations of oppression, genocide, mass graves, corruption, stagnation and incompetence".
"Think about what was going on in Iraq a year ago with people being tortured, rape rooms, mass graves, gross corruption, a country that has used chemical weapons against its own people," he said in response to a question, his voice rising, his hands chopping the air for emphasis.
Abelardo Ruiz Perez, a leader of the Archdiocese of Solala, an area near Santiago Atitlan that's home to many indigenous people, said, "Maximón is a phenomenon of the gravest religious corruption… Only God may know the destruction of souls and bodies".
In the protest marches that have become a regular feature of Argentine life in the last two months, the slogan repeated over and over again is, "Throw them all out!" While patronage jobs are merely "a venial sin of politics," Mr. Fraga said, "for ordinary people they are a mortal sin, the most grave form of corruption.
As early as the 1995 Blount v. SEC decision and more recently in the 2010 Green Party of Connecticut v. Garfield decision, the courts have recognized the grave potential for corruption in government contracting and have upheld pay-to-play laws and rules as narrowly tailored remedies to a very real and specific problem.
For it puts a spotlight on one of South Africa's gravest problems: rampant corruption, particularly in government.At times it feels as if almost everyone in a position of power or influence is on the take.
