| Fascism thus laid the foundation for the post-war creation of a sectional and clientelistic system of welfare. |
| However, political parties tended to represent sectional interests and operate along clientelistic lines and prone to graft and patronage. |
| When the Republic was proclaimed, they adapted easily to an electoral politics that was decentralised and clientelistic. |
| Elections were controlled through a clientelistic system based on the influence of landowners who thus wielded considerable power. |
| The two majority parties have a long tradition of populist politics and they are quite prone to create clientelistic relations. |
