But the alternative feeble, unresponsive parties that leave corruption in their own ranks unpunished is hardly appealing.
Some of the shirts and signs carried the slogan "Keep Reforms in Front of You, and Leave Corruption Behind". Clutching an orange rose, Mona Abinader, 70, sat in the shade outside a school in Baabda after voting for Aoun.
And it has left corruption thriving in the high places, among the country's rich.
"It is not a bad thing, countries that have left corruption behind have done it," said Rodriguez, without giving details.
At the end of season three, rotten rozzer DI Matthew Cottan's dying declaration pointed the finger at a puppet master whose surname began with the letter H. Rather unhelpfully, he expired before filling in any more blanks, leaving anti-corruption unit AC-12 dangling.
Analysts point to the way they can both leave old corruption deals obsolete and encourage criminal groups to seek to negotiate new ones with the incoming authorities.
Many have since left, disenchanted by persistent violence and corruption, leaving a void where an educated middle class was supposed to be the foundation of a new society.
For too long, Connecticut has failed to vigorously pursue homegrown corruption, leaving it to federal officials to investigate most serious allegations.
Monday is the official opening of the parliamentary session, and if she does not have a government by then, the departing prime minister Ehud Olmert, who is leaving to fight corruption charges, will make the day's major speech, not she.
Government subsidies account for roughly 50%% of the financing for a typical biogas engineering project (NDRC/MOA 2011), often leaving room for corruption and waste, and leading to the low quality of many biogas projects.
On the internet, thousands of people have called for better measures to fight corruption, leaving comments on websites launched for the congress by official media outlets Xinhua news agency, People's Daily and China Central Television (CCTV).
