Crowded “bus” on Černý Most: People go to vote and to the mountains
photo: Jiří Zemen, PrahaIN.cz/Overcrowded bus stop at Černý Most
The presidential election started today. Voter turnout in the first round of the 2018 presidential election was just 61.92 percent.
How it will be this year, no one knows yet. However, on Friday, the bus station on Černá Most was really busy. The truth is, it’s not that unusual at the end of the work week.
But today the “bus” was really bursting at the seams.
All full of young people. We immediately thought that they were leaving the capital so that they could vote. only of the students spend only working days here and return home on weekends.
Those who did not obtain a voter’s card, which could be submitted in writing, in person or online, had to vote at their place of permanent residence.
Elections and mountains
Our assumption that the Černý Most bus stop is overcrowded for this very reason has been confirmed.
“Yes, we are studying here, we are going to vote,” a group of four young people told us. They didn’t know about the possibilities of a voter’s card: “We don’t spend much time in Prague on weekends anyway,” they added.
Other young people knew about this possibility. However, they did not use it: “I’m going to our place, it will be better.” we heard the answers from about a dozen other men and women. All of them were united by the fact that this was their first presidential election. In 2018, they were not of legal age.
Packed… Source: PrahaIN.cz
However, many people also traveled for another reason, they went to the mountains. We saw several groups of children. There is not much snow and they are aware of it: “We have hikes ahead of us,” revealed one of the adults with a mat in his backpack.
Voting, like all those who went to the mountains, will not go. “The first round is not worth it,” the young man made no secret of his skepticism, adding literally that he would choose the lesser evil in the second round.
Of course, we did not ask the students, from whom we found out where they were going, about their choice. However, they often proudly revealed it to us themselves.
died in all cases it was Petr Pavel.