Abstract
At the basic of their public office, politicians have a special status in society. Their behaviour is exposed to increased media and public review.
This review focuses not only on their duties and actions directly connected to the public office, but also to their actions of private persons that may affect their performance in public office. The review then focuses also on the behaviour of politicians in their private life - their family, personal and intimate life.
There are two confronting groups of arguments - arguments highlighting the right of private life protection (similar to protection of ordinary people) and arguments underscoring the relevance of politicians' private lives for the exercise of political functions. Relevance private life for public office is designed both the right to read the indicators, which may indicate how political candidate will engage in a public office and also uncovering how the abused public office to gain unfair advantages in private life, as well as public policy status persons that are comparable to showbiz celebrities, who benefit from their popularity.
Support for the construction of this relevance seems to be a difference between the normative ideal of rational policy of producing optimal solutions of public affairs, regardless of the interests of particular actors, on the one hand and the real politics on the other.