Daily bread 06/07/2018

• Colombia's anti-corruption referendum: It's happening

  • Colombia’s anti-corruption referendum: It’s happening
  • take to the polls
  • far-reaching measures
  • to curb corruption
  • The country’s senate
  • ratified the proposal
  • curtail the country’s notoriously corrupt congress

  • The referendum

    • The salary of congressmen and top government officials must be reduced
    • Prison and a life-long ban on government contracts after corruption conviction
    • Compulsory transparency in the awarding of government contracts
    • Citizen participation in budget debates
    • Congressmen must publicly clarify voting behavior and attendance
    • Illegitimate income of lawmakers must be made public and seized
    • Congressmen may not serve more than three terms in Congress
  • must vote in favor of the bill
  • the referendum will be declared invalid
  • abstention
  • enrich themselves

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