I voted in the European elections today while out getting my new glasses. There was a voting spot in the shopping centre. I figured I better vote now or I’ll probably forget, or can’t be bothered to make a separate trip to a voting spot later. There’s no voting spot in any of the places I go to every week, so if I didn’t do it now I’d need make a separate extra trip just to vote. So it was best to do it right away, on this first advance voting day.

I’m really fed up with elections being so close together – feels like I’ve been doing nothing but preparing to vote for 1,5 years now! First the parliamentary election last year, then the presidential election in January and now European elections. I was soo tempted to not vote in the European elections this time. There was also the fact that the person I usually vote, because she so knowledgeable, knows her facts and argues her side well, is running for MEP now, and I don’t want her to leave domestic politics the European parliament. She’s one of our best politicians because of the aforementioned qualities, acknowledged so even by her opponents. But I also thought she maybe wants a change of pace from domestic politics and I’m 100% certain she’d make an excellent MEP – but I don’t want her to leave the domestic politics! So the actual decision on who to vote for was both very easy and very hard at the same time. And a big part of me feels like the national elections are far more important and these Euro ones don’t matter, but that’s not true and what with predictions for the right wing joining far right wing forces in these elections and winning, I couldn’t not vote.

At least there’s now one vote that says NO to right wing and far right wing values and YES to left values.

But I’m so fed up with elections – there were 3 elections too close together. Just when one ended, you already had to start thinking about the next one! There’s been a lot of noise about combining some of the elections, and I think I agree.