Three small crosses - this is the amount of democracy I could excercise for our communal elections today. I even cared to read the programs of the candidates. But in the end it is all about compromises, so I have chosen the party that reflected most of my views.

The polling booths are located right across the street, in my old primary school. Oddly enough they are also in my old classroom where I had most of my courses during fifth and sixth grade. So a trip to the polling booth is always a trip back in history, to my old english classes with Mr. Rebing, math classes with Mrs. Burkhardt and german classes with Mr. Cramer that I had 15 years ago. They have redone the floor and painted the walls, but the rest is pretty much the same. I think, even the chairs have not changed.

It looks like there won’t be a lot of change, we will have a social democrat as city major, the christian democrats had a great loss (13%) but will still be the biggest party in our city council.

Of course, there are the usual political statements, amazingly everyone declared themselves a winner.