MANCHESTER, England (CN) — Wales looks set to become the first country in the world to make it a crime for politicians to lie during election campaigns, under legislation now moving through the Welsh Parliament — known as the Senedd.
The bill, approved at its first legislative stage last month, would ban candidates and elected lawmakers from making false or misleading statements in the run-up to elections.
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