Portuguese have no stomach for elections

Presidential elections will take place in Portugal on Sunday. According to the latest polls President Aníbal Cavaco Silva will be re-elected with 60 percent of the vote. Fernanda Câncio writes in the daily Diário de Notícias that the election poses the same problem as what to do with leftovers from meals: "I can't remember there ever having been elections like this. Perhaps that has to do with my failing memory, but I've never heard so many people say 'I've no idea who to vote for, you?' And I've never heard so many people swear they'll just do 'eenie, meenie, miny, moe' in the polling booth, or that they'll vote for a 'protest candidate'. ... People ask for your opinion the way they'd ask what they should order in a restaurant. Unfortunately the dishes on offer in this peculiar restaurant are warmed-up leftovers, and in this case they've been copiously chewed on as well - just like the charity campaign of the current president and re-election candidate. No surprises, no novelties, no prospects - and no one's hungry either."

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