"A faraway land ... of which we know nothing"
In this case it's not Czechoslovakia but Slovakia - but why is it relevant to us? For this reason: elections there have voted in, on a 58% vote, a new president in Zuzana Čaputová. What was remarkable was not that she was the country's first female president but the way she campaigned. She based her campaign on the slogan "Stand up to evil," made no personal attacks on her opponents and spoke of the importance of humanism, solidarity and truth; for example, she said to supporters at a rally in Bratislava: “Let us look for what connects us. Let us promote cooperation above personal interests. I am happy not just for the result, but mainly that it is possible not to succumb to populism, to tell the truth, to raise interest without aggressive vocabulary.”A fine lesson, then, for all of us, and it would be good to think that we can adopt a similar approach in this country's politics.
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