Madness

This Sunday Slovenia will get a new president. I was in doubt whether to write anything about it at all as I try to keep politics off my blogs but then I thought, why not!

So what do we have to choose from?

In the first round the two remaining candidates defeated a left wing economist who was a serious contender and lost his place in the second round by only about a thousand votes, a nationalist with a history of drunk-driving offences, a female quadriplegic, and a couple of other buffoons.

One of the remaining candidates, smiling from the jumbo posters, tells us he is the right man for us. He is a favourite with the rural population and has a silent support from the clergy.

The other one, a long-time diplomat, tries to assure us from other jumbo posters that he is the man we can rely on. He may collect some of the votes from the candidate he beat in the first round neck-to-neck race.

The president of Slovenia has no executive power in peace time so what does it matter at all whom the people choose? But anyone telling me that he is the right (right indeed!) for me or even that I can rely on him induces quite an opposite reaction in me. I only wish someone once had the balls to call a spade a spade and tell the electorate that once elected, they will act only in their own interest and forget all the promises they made in the campaign. A candidate like that might even get my vote.