The (re)opening of the National Assembly after the legislative elections is an opportunity to address the issue of morality and transparency in public life. This is a delicate subject but dear to the citizens, and unfortunately, due to the increasing transgressions by politicians or their family and professional circles, it creates a deep divide between civil society and this “elite.”
There is no need to remind that those who hold an elected position do so as representatives of all the citizens who delegate this responsibility to them through their vote.
Consequently, no one is obligated to hold this mandate and the accompanying responsibilities if they do not want to adhere to the moral requirement of having an impeccably ethical behavior.
This is not always the case: quite the opposite, often – too often – the news highlights their lifestyle, privileges, the corruption of a few, and the compromise by many.
Here, we could refer to Aristotle’s principles described in “Nicomachean Ethics,” where the philosopher explains that ‘ethics and politics are inseparable.’
And even more to Immanuel Kant’s “deontological ethics,” which posits that every human action must be judged in accordance with the duty that the philosopher from Koenigsberg calls a “categorical imperative.”
More simply, we ask elected officials to commit to impeccable moral behavior as representatives of the Nation.
Given the mistakes of the past, it’s never too late to do the right thing!
We certainly hope that the elected officials from the Alpes-Maritimes department will receive, by the end of their term, a ‘laurea cum laude.’
