The city of Marseille will adopt ethics charters for its elected officials and agents, a measure included in the recommendations of the French Anti-Corruption Agency in a recent report on the second city in France, and adopted on Friday, December 17.
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These two charters lay down the clear principles on which the ethics of elected municipal officials and agents of the city of Marseille
", detailed during the city council on Friday Olivia Fortin, deputy mayor responsible in particular for the transparency of public life. "
They will allow elected officials and agents to have a reference document, a basis on which to lean when they have questions or encounter difficulties,
" she added.
The charter of elected officials “
concerns all elected officials of the municipal council. It plans to go beyond the ethical principles set out by the regulations with, for example, the commitment to resign in the event of a final criminal conviction for felony or misdemeanor
”, she added. So that everyone can appropriate them, these charters "
will be broken down into educational documents
" illustrated with examples and the issue of ethics will also be the subject of training offered to all municipal councilors and agents, explained Olivia. Fort. "
To vote for these charters is to respond to one of the 16 recommendations of the French Anti-Corruption Agency (AFA) concerning the bringing our community back into conformity
",she recalled.
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In a control report from the municipality of Marseille in July 2021, which AFP took note of, the French Anti-Corruption Agency noted in particular "
an insufficient culture of probity within the services
" of the city, illustrated in particular by "
the current practice of family recruitments
”or“
the large number of officials who have been the subject of criminal complaints for breaches of probity
”.
The city of Marseille was ruled for 25 years by the right-wing mayor Jean-Claude Gaudin before the arrival in the summer of 2020 of a new left-wing majority.
These charters are "
the first stone of something that will allow this city to reconnect with what it should be, a large city, open, transparent, democratic, intelligent, with its faults of course, we will never become a city. Scandinavian, and so it is
, ”commented the mayor of Marseille, Benoît Payan.