European elections

This Sunday we celebrate the European elections. The pools say that most of European citizens don’t care much about them –more than 60% say they won’t vote-. I imagine that Europe is still far away from us, especially, when we have to fix a lot of things in our own countries.

However, the specialists say that the decisions they make in the European Parliament are more important than we think. Decisions taken in Brussels affect us directly even though we don’t think about it normally.

Despite this argument, a lot of people think that the European Parliament doesn’t have any sense. The amount of politicians that are there and the money it costs us are some topics people repeat and these is a bad publicity for them.

I think I didn’t vote in the past elections, but I am in this one. For me is special because it will be the first time I will go with my wife Jéssica to the pooling station. Now, the only problem is deciding who I am going to vote for.

I don’t like to generalize and I know that all politicians aren’t as bad as people say and think. However, the situation of our country and all the scandals we have found out about them in the past years don’t help. It is not fair to say that all of them are bad, thieves and that they should disappear. I am sure there are a lot of them that spend a lot of hours working, trying to help their neighbours, with the purpose of building a better society.

In the other hand I understand that people don’t believe in them as they used to. I think politicians have lost their prestige through their own fault and now they have to try to fix it. Despite this, it looks as every day they try to do their job even worse.

I have a lot of doubts for this Sunday. I think politicians should put their feet on the ground and see which the real problems of society are. There are a lot of families that don’t have jobs, food and that live in poor conditions. They say the crisis is over but nobody sees any improvement. As I said, I know not all the politicians are bad, but they have to work hard to change the way people think.

Now it is a moment for leaders, for people who have to stand out and not only say nice words; we need somebody that convinces people with words and work, specially. I am sure these elections will not change anything, but politicians should think about it and try to do their best. Society is getting fed up with them and they need to start believing in politicians again.