Earthlings, who are you voting for?

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  • Czech Republic Pozemšťané, koho budete volit?
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"Paroubek, who are you voting for?" shouts Aleš Koudela at the now former chairman of the Czech Social Democrats during a party meeting in the town of Litoměřice. Koudela is a member of Inventura (Inventory), a group which supports arts and journalism projects by people who are mentally handicapped. Director Linda Jablonská made a documentary with them mapping events leading up to parliamentary elections in 2010, as the crew attended various political rallies in urban and rural areas. Their apparently banal questions often cut straight to the heart of important issues, while the manner in which they arrived at decisions on whom to cast their ballots for was perhaps not that unusual. "I'm going to vote for Schwarzenberg because he speaks well and doesn't stutter," says Martin Vošmik, another of the mentally handicapped documentary makers. One of his colleagues poses a fundamental question: "Who's going to save our planet?" (One World)

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