The Sekyra Foundation held an international conference on the power of parties, money and influence at the KVH (19.6.2023). Danuše Nerudová, who has already launched her campaign to be elected as an MEP, served as the "opening speaker". After the debate, she quickly left. You can listen to the audio recording and make up your own mind. Only "two or three questions" were allowed, I spoke from the front row, I did not get a chance to speak. I would argue the same point on Ms. Neruda's views as below. The event started 75 min late with no one apologizing. The public also had to wait while the organizers said goodbye to Ms. Neruda backstage. Of the scheduled 6 hours, the conference lasted, I estimate, about 3 hours.
This was followed by the Sekyra Foundation event - an introduction(in English) and a subsequent debate by the participants (three from the public and three from the organizers). The public participants did not respect the moderator's instructions for a structured debate. As soon as they were given the microphone, instead of the required short introduction, they started straight into a lengthy lecture. My warning was silenced, but the "lectures" had already been cut short by the participants themselves. By the end, basically only the organizers were debating, the others had left, the hall was empty. My short contribution (from 1:05:35) was evaluated by the words of the organizer: "Well, I hope you will leave already". I was thus unable to finish my disrupted contribution on the need to change the electoral system, including a demonstration of the functionality of democracy in Switzerland.
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