De opkomst op 19 maart zal bedroevend laag zijn, is de verwachting. Laten we daarom een voorbeeld nemen aan Noord-Korea: 99,99 % van de kiezers brengt zijn stem uit, en 99,98 % stemt voor die ene kandidaat op wie hij of zij kan stemmen. Hoe is dit te verklaren? Het is de kracht van de poëzie!!!
State media in North
Korea is using poetry to encourage people to vote in forthcoming elections, it
appears.
Official news agency KCNA reports that poets of the Central Committee of the
Writers Union of Korea have created election-themed poems in the run-up to
polling day on 9 March. Titles include The Billows Of Emotion And Happiness, We
Break Into Cheers From The Bottom Of Our Heart and We Go To The Polling
Station.
The poems are said to
represent what the agency calls "the immutable will of all service
personnel and people to remain loyal to the revolutionary leadership of Marshal
Kim Jong-un".
Deputies will be elected
from 687 constituencies for the Supreme People's Assembly, the rubber-stamp
legislature that is dominated by the Korean Workers' Party. Although other
parties are represented in the election, all fall under the umbrella of the
Fatherland Front, which is subservient to leader Kim Jong-un, who will be
standing in the Paektusan constituency, the Rodong Sinmun newspaper says.
Pyongyang is keen to
show public enthusiasm for the electoral process, with state television airing
the patriotic Song Of Election between programmes, while TV news bulletins
report a near-carnival atmosphere with polling places decorated with balloons
and flowers.