Well the elections are today. The last couple of days I had strong pre-election depression brought about by every glance at the pre-election polls. The last batch of polls had the parties fare thusly:
SMER – Social Democracy (Róbert Fico): +/- 28%
Slovak Christian Democratic Union – Democratic Party (PM Mikuláš Dzurinda): +/- 12%
Movement for Democratic Slovakia (Vladimír Mečiar): +/- 11%
Christian Democratic Movement (Pavol Hrušovský): +/- 10%
Hungarian Coalition Party (Béla Bugár): +/- 10%
Slovak National Party (Ján Slota): +/- 9%
Free Forum (Zuzana Martináková): +/- 6%
Communist Party of Slovakia (Jozef Ševc): +/- 5%
The last two have no certainty of getting into the parliament, since they hover ever so slightly over the threshold of 5%. Of the remaining 6 most likely to get in there, you can see that the “bad” and “ugly” reign supreme. Hence my depression.
Later this evening I shall go forth and cast my vote for the “neo-liberal right-wingers” .
Later I have two courses of action available to me 1) watch the tragedy unravel and bitchily live-blog the event or 2) consume large amounts of mind-altering drugs and/or alcoholic beverages and achieve a state close to chemically induced coma, so that I won’t have to witness the no doubt bleak results. If I should opt for 1) it is very likely that some sort of screeching jeremiads of desperation should appear here later today and tomorrow. If however I should choose 2) then of course I shall remain blissfully ignorant of what is about to transpire as well as physically incapable of the act of writing.
I could go on now, about the intricacies and delicacies or what have you, on how SMER is likely to get less than the projected and how the Right will get slightly more than the projected, on all the (im)probable coalitions (the very likely and terrifying National Socialist coalition of SMER-Nationalists-Mečiar causing most apprehension), on the expected low turnout and what effects that could have, but I am not in the mood at all.
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