![]() ![]() When the day came, long queues quickly formed. For that reason, the government decided to repeat the election a week after. It was almost as if everyone had decided to vote at the same time.Īlthough abstention wasn’t as high as first feared, the counting of the votes revealed that more than 70% of the people in the capital had voted blank. After four o’clock in the afternoon, there were long queues to vote. When the rain started to stop, they became confident that voters would finally appear. They were informed that the same was happening at the majority of all the other polling stations in the city. As no one was appearing to cast their votes, the people responsible for the polling station number 14 decided to call the ministry. On a day of local elections, rain was heavily pouring down in the capital of an unnamed country. Set in the same location as Blindness, it pulls readers in thanks to an engaging prose, even if some of the characters are not fully fleshed out. It delves into the complexities of democracy, how people need to find a way to express their dissatisfaction and how even democratically elected governments don’t always treat citizens with the respect they deserve. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ensaio sobre a Lucidez ( Seeing in the English translation) is certainly one of those. Various books by José Saramago can be categorised as allegories. ![]()
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