2023-12-09 02:00:00
This 12/09 is the International Day Against Corruption. It was established in 2003 by the UN, with the aim of stopping and/or eliminating corrupt acts and practices in all member countries. In general, corruption refers to the misuse of public power to obtain an illegitimate advantage, generally secretly and privately. In simple terms, these are cases in which public servants take their tasks, functions and available resources as private businesses. Virtually all research and scientific work on corruption agrees that: a) It undermines the legitimacy of public institutions b) It attacks society, the moral order, justice and the integral and harmonious development of a country or region. Accepting that representative democracy is an indispensable condition for the stability, peace and development of Argentina, by its nature, requires combating all forms and types of corruption in the exercise of public functions that occur in any of the powers of the state (national, provincial, municipal and communal). As background, Max Weber (father of Sociology), in his works distinguishes between politicians who live for politics and politicians who live from politics, with which it stops being valid by itself and becomes an instrument of enrichment. And he raises the danger of personal and social collapse that corruption entails. Fighting this scourge will strengthen our institutions, avoid economic distortions, vices in the administration of public affairs and the deterioration of social morality and, fundamentally, trust in our society will be restored. If we also understood that corruption is the key that opens the doors of worlds such as prostitution, drug trafficking, smuggling, etc., our role as citizens would be more proactive in demanding greater and better quality from the organizations and members that they make up the republic. Despite its importance, there are no concrete actions in this regard. In Tucumán, to combat it we need: efficient controls, transparency, access to public information and, above all, education in values.
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