The Together coalition won the student elections in Prague
If the composition of the lower parliamentary chamber were decided by students (not only) of Prague grammar schools, vocational schools and apprenticeships, two “liberal” coalitions (Pirates and Mayors, Together) would be won by a comfortable constitutional majority. And the YES movement, unlike the national balance sheet, in which the Pirates and Mayors won the lowest, would not even exceed the 5% quorum for entering the House. The main government movement fared only slightly better in the vote of high school students over the age of fifteen four years ago, when the Pirates clearly won in the metropolis before TOP 09 and no one else surpassed even eight percent.
“For me, the issue of the country’s debt for several generations and the question of how to solve this problem is crucial. I admit that I voted in the ‘anti Babiš’ style for the Together coalition. In my opinion, the Czechia does not solve important environmental problems much today, “Henrich Gerken, chairman of the election commission at the Jan Palach Grammar School, told the Prague daily, where the turnout in the voting reached eighty percent. “Student elections are good in my opinion in that students are already involved as minors. They are aware of the parties they are running for as such programs. And that can later motivate you to participate in real elections, “added the third-year student. According to its organizers, the event on school grounds really contributes to a greater participation of first-time voters in real elections.
The Jan Palach Grammar School was registered in the “election simulator” by teacher Jan Kubíček, who, within the subject of politics and international relations, talks to students about the media as a political tool and political marketing. “For example, we analyzed videos from the election campaign before the last US presidential election. Among other things, we worked there as Joe Biden, originally from a small town, and how Donald Trump again targeted other groups of people, “Kubíček gave an example from a” voice training “lesson, for which One World provides various teaching aids or thematic videos in schools. “In the same way, we analyzed the pre-election spots from the Czech Television or how Prime Minister Babiš tried to thank the supporters of horoscopes, of which there are many according to polls in the Czech Republic,” a faster cantor establishment.
“Disinformation, conspiracy theories and poplar reports pose a direct threat to democracy, human rights and freedoms. Disinformation aces include hyperpopulist, demagogic, authoritarian politicians who masterfully use disinformation and manipulative content. Conscious lying and manipulating information pursue a goal. The aim is to influence people’s opinions and attitudes, as well as their electoral preferences, “warnings in connection with the” educational “functions of the project director of the JSNS program and initiator of student elections Karel Strachota, according to which leaders of negative emotions “Before the elections, during the election campaigns, for a long time to the extent described above,” Strachota emphasized.
Result of student elections 2021 in Prague:
Total 37.9%
Pirates and Mayors 33.5%
Green Party 7.2%
Movement YES 2.9%
source: JSNS