Life's A Beach

The indispensible Kalebeul has directed our attention to an article in La Vanguardia which relates Spanish Attorney-General Cándido Conde-Pumpido's defense against charges that the number of municipal corruption prosecutions is skewed against certain (opposition) parties. Speaking before the nation's congress, he provided a brief statistical analysis of the work performed by his underlings.

We've done a brief rework, with a bit of information that might be useful to readers not familiar with the Spanish political landscape, of Carlos López' derived 'Corruptómetro' - including the amazing record of the now defunct Marbella political party, GIL.* We hope Mr. López doesn't mind our scooping up and editing part of his Google spreadsheet.

Our adaptation is below.



Readers might note that there seems to be some relationship between a high score and proximity to a beach heavily populated with foreigners. Someone with a bit of time on their hands might wish to do the same study, adding provinces or regions to the mix. The current one lets the national parties off the hook in, for example, Andalucía (PSOE) and Valencia (PP), in which local interest parties are not widely represented.

*Marbella city council - run as a private fiefdom by Jesús Gil's self-named party for about 15 years - has, at any given point in time, about 27 councillors serving the polity. A total of 17 make this list.

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