Being younger and a journalist, I was excited and curious about the election afternoons. But I keep getting less and less attention until the actual results appear. My point of view has changed and I look more and more like these nights with the broadcasts of Sundays on football matches. Maybe it's missing, but Sunday football has never stirred up a lot of interest in me.

The election afternoons always start with the results of the polls. That is, with quinielas. As in football performances, they foresee all the results and put dance experts, almost taking for granted what is only possible. The polls seem to me to be a waste of time: all of a sudden we viewers are aware that the forecasts have failed and that their consequences have been no more than a distraction to the actual results. But these, the real data, as they gradually appear on the screens, we forget them -- do we forget? ). Like previous analyses of the results of Sunday matches, the polls outweigh the real information of the show.

But what I love the least, in football and in election nights, is the passion for competition. Both are elements of competition, but I find it particularly annoying, especially in the elections, that attempt to win, whenever and at any cost.

It seems that the parties, and the political systems in general, do not carry anything good other than being an absolute winner. The most interesting traits for me in a democracy, the plurality of opportunities and the relative loss of benefits, are poorly seen as bad for democracy. That is a confusion: it is understandable that it is more difficult for the system – and more difficult for politicians – to share power between many parties. It is understandable, in this sense, that many people prefer bipartisanship. But that does not mean that it is bad for democracy and for the people: on the contrary, the plurality of parties can be very beneficial for the citizens, insofar as it obliges those who do not think the same to talk and debate.

Real democracy is not a football league: it should put competition in the background and prioritize the diversity of citizenship. And I should definitely accept that citizenship is not wrong when it chooses one way or another. And in football, I set myself as an example to the good coaches, who when their team loses a game, they accept responsibility and they know how to take advantage of defeat. It is worth matching football and democracy!