Synopsis
The World Economic Forum in 2014 described and statistically documented a number of key global issues that indicate a critical and disruptive social phenomena. Among them is the deteriorating position of representative democracy, consisting in the loss of confidence in elected representatives of the people and of the mechanisms and processes that precede the election. As shown in the chart compiled SEF for the last half-century, this trend is steadily deteriorating, the acceleration took place after the crisis in 2008, when the entire Western world mass expressed distrust of the people in the ability of the political class to solve the ensuing crisis. The film explores the phenomenon against the background of Slovakia’s presidential election – examines the candidate, voters and electoral mechanisms in the heart of Central Europe.