Emmanuel D Tayari,

During the election time, we always speak ill of politicians and even various policies that they have put forward. Ethics play a great role on how people analyze how politicians have used their roles for personal gain or misconduct. However, firstly let us ask ourselves, what is the relationship between ethics and politics? Ethics and Politics are similar as both are concerned with protecting the society’s prosperity: Ethics choose what is best for us to enjoy a healthy life, while politics organize the best social life possible. This means that these two are interrelated and you cannot create a prosperous society without having both.

The other question to ask ourselves is; what makes the politicians have a bad reputation? In fact, most people are very good especially the ones with good intentions, but unfortunately most people also are unwilling to comply with proper ethics. In any case they are human beings with their strengths and weaknesses. It is more clearly looming in the public arena; and we cannot forgive the slightest mistake when the politicians are unethical. Most of the Politicians grab all he/she can with great skill and forgets that he/she is a human being and treats others as mere objects. This type of politicians with broad minds that are manipulative end up as leaders and politicians with bad reputations of which unfortunately most of such leaders exists in most parts of the world today and our country is not an exception.

Perhaps the biggest mistake of our politicians, including those who have promoted important public work is the lack of Empathy. They have forgotten to practice empathy, which is based on the Christian principle "do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself," and that is why they always end up in corruption scandals.

While it is true that in the democratic system, everyone has the right to elect and be elected I think this year it is about time we come to the conclusion that, the right leaders have to be ethical politicians. As we are heading to the elections this year, it is good to remember that; times are hard. The financial collapse of the most powerful country in the planet has caused unknown effects on the global economy, and, of course, these effects are more prevalent in underdeveloped countries like ours, where the price of everything has gone up. It is important to underscore that while we are trying to recover, we have no place for lack of honesty by politicians which is another financial crisis by itself

When people involve themselves in corruption without feeling obligated, it makes one ask him/herself if democracy really exists. One of the most common criticisms of democracy is that; it alleges that ignorance of citizens about the political, economic and social rights in a society is a reason that hinders them to a rational choice between various proposals. This ignorance would make the decisions of people wrong in most cases. However, democracy advocates that people are not ignorant, and blames that kind of criticism that it has interest in putting the powerful classes and the technocratic authoritarianism to the interests of the people.