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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
Three senior Lebanese female judges have tendered their resignations in protest at political interference and the collapse in the value of their pay as a financial and political crisis rages. A political system based on sectarian balance and patronage has led to decades of economic mismanagement and corruption, and has undermined a legal system where many judges are appointed for their loyalty rather than effectiveness. There is dramatic evidence of this in a campaign by politicians to hobble a judicial inquiry into last year’s catastrophic Beirut port blast. “This is a wake-up call about ever…