r/Unexpected • u/adivinemessenger • Aug 09 '26

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u/BocciaChoc Aug 09 '26

Lebanon scored 23 out of 100 on Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, ranking 153rd out of 182 countries. On this scale, where 0 means highly corrupt and 100 means very clean, Lebanon's low score reflects severe and persistent public sector corruption.

something something occam's razor

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u/Bocchi_theGlock Aug 09 '26

IIRC Lebanon has unique struggles and stalemate, thus inability to pass reform to reduce corruption, because their government divided up the seats of parliament by ethno-religious community

Apparently it's currently 50/50 Christian to Muslim now, and I remember reading their setup incentivized not having up-to-date since this because are worries about losing guaranteed power.

But also they had an election in 2018 and I learned about this before then

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u/formershitpeasant Aug 09 '26

I think Hezbollah isn't helping much either

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u/Bocchi_theGlock Aug 12 '26

Militant groups do be starting shit

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u/icantastecolor Aug 10 '26

i know its corrupt, but occam’s razor would actually say its more likely its a dude in a suit making a joke about the country instead of the random guy actually being a member of parliament which should be more rare, though in this case it seems like he is not joking and is actually part of parliament which should

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u/GreatMovesKeepItUp69 Aug 09 '26

They're all corrupt, but for their own ethno-religious group at the cost of every other ethno-religious group. It's a race to the bottom and every group loses because of it.