Stomping around the European Parliament - Demokracija

Stomping around the European Parliament - Demokracija

By: Dr Andreja Valič Zver One often naively imagines that the leaders of countries – the political elite – are at least a bit wiser than those who elected them. Why else would people vote for someone worse than themselves? Half in jest, half in earnest, history has shown far too often – not only in hereditary forms of rule – that individuals have risen to power who would not even be entrusted with running a newspaper kiosk, let alone a local com…