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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Madagascar's president orders lie detector tests for candidates applying to be government ministers

Anyone applying to become a minister in Madagascar's new government will be subjected to lie detector tests to root out those who are corrupt, the country's military leader said Thursday.

President Michael Randrianirina, who took power in a coup in the Indian Ocean island in October, said Madagascar had acquired a polygraph machine and a specialist to operate it to vet new government ministers.

"We will know who is corrupt and who can help us," Randrianirina said. “We are not looking for someone who is 100% clean, but someone who is more than 60% clean.”

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