The time has come to face the feared monster with five columns and more than 30 symbols. We have reached the crucial hour in which more than 27 million Peruvians will be in front of the sabanón that will be remembered as the largest electoral card in history and that will define the future of the country we want for the next five years. The time to listen to proposals, obtain information and draw conclusions has come to an end. Today is the decisive day.
The time has come to face the feared monster with five columns and more than 30 symbols. We have reached the crucial hour in which more than 27 million Peruvians will be in front of the sabanón that will be remembered as the largest electoral card in history and that will define the future of the country we want for the next five years. The time to listen to proposals, obtain information and draw conclusions has come to an end. Today is the decisive day.
The true heroes of this day will be the hundreds of thousands of citizens drawn as table members. They will have the immense task of organizing and directing the voting in their premises, and then, when everything is over, they will have to count and count the votes cast in five different elections. Filling out the minutes will be a long and exhausting task. Away from their own people for several hours and giving up their days of rest, these Peruvians will be the main guarantors of the legitimacy of the process.
Once again, the destiny of Peru will depend on the lines we make on that immense sheet of paper. Let us not forget that when discontent prevails, improvisation usually disguises itself as hope. Let us put aside the dangerous attraction to the abyss that has characterized our last elections, where passion and anger have prevailed over reflection. Let’s not forget what we experienced in the last five years.
The decision we make today may be motivated by apathy, antipathy, disenchantment or simply by the trend of the week. The punitive desire against bad politicians may be justified, but used incorrectly it is a double-edged sword. Outrage may be understandable, but thoughtlessness is dangerous. We all pay the consequences.
Starting at 5 pm, when the first electoral results and projections begin to be known, we will know if we will be closer to the edge of the cliff or we have begun to move away from it. May lucidity win over boredom in the first round.
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