As minister, he was once again remarked upon for his unselfishness, honesty and scrupulousness in a regime particularly marked by general corruption among the political and administrative elites.
There are hundreds of thousands of leaders that act with megalomania, paternalism, extreme greed, stubbornness, sick narcissism, arrogance, falseness and scrupulousness, perversion, amorality or political lunacy.
Interestingly, the two acts that carried off joint first prize were the ones that played elaborately composed pieces, with an old-fashioned scrupulousness in the choice of notes.