Good luck and good mental health.
The year 2018 has flowed freely and seamlessly into 2019, and we have all been fortunate enough to have all the highest constitutional officers sent us into the next term in turn with their personal wishes. Miloš Zeman did not surprise with the content of his speech, the mainstay of which was the rephrasing of clichés that some mistakenly consider bon mots. However, the spatial arrangement, which quite skillfully combines classic statesmanlike attributes with Christmas themes, worked well. The change in the timing of the publication of the President's speech from the first of January to the Christmas period brings the positive benefit of lower viewership and a lower overall impact on the public. Therefore, perhaps the calls for the enactment of compulsory participation in elections (common in South American countries, regionally somewhat distant) are more likely to sink in. The same fate of oblivion, I believe, will befall the inappropriate condemnation of legitimate demonstrations for the resignation of the government and the ostentatious reference to opinion polls 'proving' the public's distrust of the media, television, NGOs and churches. The approximately twenty-five-minute speech had a leisurely pace, but more swing was probably not to be expected. Andrej Babiš, who peppered the answers to his New Year's address with self-praise, also set about dispensing timeless thoughts. Begging for support for a proposal to shorten the construction procedure, ideally to one year! across the political spectrum sounds comical in light of the fact that Andrej Babiš has had his people and himself in government for five years. The overall impression, as always, was crowned by inappropriate glasses with XXL long sides ignoring multifocal solutions to near and distance vision problems. The choice of tie for the newly purchased jacket could have been better. It's as if Monica and Lucie have stopped caring about her husband's/president's image. A common feature of the contributions of Radek Vondráček, President of the Lower House of Parliament, and Jaroslav Kubera, President of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, was the clumsily used furnishings. In particular, the placement of the desk in an almost free space would perhaps befit a visionary representing the latest fad in the field of information technology and not a bored patron (Radek Vondráček) sitting crookedly. The use of a reading device and the protagonist's lean smile contributed to the unctuous, unsalty impression of the speech, which veiledly encouraged a less critical view of the current prime minister's causes and lectured on what democracy is. According to Vondráček, "Democracy is not fast and efficient, nor is that its purpose and goal." Sic! Surprisingly, however, Vondráček could not handle the nearly quarter of an hour of talking, especially physically, and gradually collapsed more and more to his right. Jaroslav Kubera, too, rather succumbed to the set bar, and during his New Year's message, with obvious nervousness, he merely mentored and did not actually get to anything else. A different way of sitting and a flower in a vase on an empty round table would have helped to banish the odour of the utter uselessness of the eight minutes of the pre-recorded speech. Those who missed all four "statesmanlike" speeches missed nothing.
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