Stockholm
This Sunday was voting day in Sweden.
Elderly people, couples and sometimes entire families went to the polling station, and made their choice on a display lined up with an impressive number of ballots ... "
These are local, regional and national elections at the same time,
" explains Simon, who guides voters to the ballot box, where the envelopes are slipped and the vote recorded in a large register.
An election almost like the others, except that Pastor Simon wears a white collar and that we are in the presbytery of the church of Högalid, where, like every four years, the kyrkovalet, or elections of the Church, took place. from Sweden.
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It's a fairly unique system that we inherited from when we were a State Church, until 2000, and we wanted to keep it to show clearly that we were a Church of the people, where democracy reigns.
", Recalls Jiang Millington, specialist in this electoral process within the church.
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