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| María Luisa Cava de Llano |
SPAIN The Spanish Ombudsman is a woman. María Luisa Cava de Llano is the
Defensora del Pueblo en funciones (i.e. caretaker until next government's appointment). Before Congress was dissolved (also before elections on November 20 - hadn't you heard?) she told members that she had officially proposed to the Ministry of Justice that it should scrutinise "in all rigour and seriousness" the possibility of including 'public wastefulness' in the Penal Code, thus making it a crime. This, she said, "quite rightly deeply scandalizes the citizenry." She went on to tell the members present that she would not look at anyone in particular because "whoever is without sin, let him (or her?) throw the first stone.">>>
