{"id":573,"date":"2016-02-16T23:19:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T23:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/odz.sk\/en\/?p=573"},"modified":"2022-01-28T23:05:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T23:05:26","slug":"mrs-maria-is-not-maria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/odz.sk\/en\/mrs-maria-is-not-maria\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMrs M\u00e1ria\u201d is not M\u00e1ria and she will not vote in Slovakia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Slovak Spectator, 16. 2. 2016<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>A stolen photo of a woman taken in New York has been used for calling on people to go to the ballot box in the upcoming election.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An anonymous online leaflet with a photo of an older lady and a question: <em>Do you want Mrs M\u00e1ria to decide about your future?<\/em> calls for participation in March parliamentary elections. With rigidly clenched lips and a slightly restrained look, Mrs M\u00e1ria is not smiling in the photo. She is dressed fittingly for the season in a winter coat; and in a fur cap she looks determined. She will apparently go to cast her vote and ruin the future of young people. This is the basic message of the pre-election online leaflet that started spreading over the internet during recent days. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The name of the woman in the picture in reality is not M\u00e1ria and she will not vote in Slovakia, the Sme daily has found out. The senior woman sat at a bench in Bennett Park in New York. Photographer Susan Sermoneta took her picture at that place on January 6, 2008, and it was not the first time. Sermoneta lives nearby and the lady also visits the park quite often.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe leaflet is trying to say that older women and older people in general are not apt to decide responsibly,\u201d <strong>Janka Debrec\u00e9niov\u00e1<\/strong>, lawyer from the human rights watchdog <a href=\"http:\/\/odz.sk\/\">Citizen, Democracy, Accountability<\/a> (ODZ) told SME.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.sme.sk\/c\/20096039\/mrs-maria-is-not-maria-and-she-will-not-vote-in-slovakia.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em>\u00a9 The Rock, 2016<br \/>\nThe article was compiled by The Slovak Spectator staff, Slovakia\u2019s only English-language bi-weekly, on February 16, 2016 at 6:51 in the section News.<\/p>\n<p>The original photo of the lady by Susan Sermoneta (Source: Susan Sermoneta)<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Slovak Spectator, 16. 2. 2016 A stolen photo of a woman taken in New York has been used for calling on people to go to the ballot box in the upcoming election. An anonymous online leaflet with a photo of an older lady and a question: Do you want Mrs M\u00e1ria to decide about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/odz.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/odz.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/odz.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/odz.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/odz.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/odz.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":860,"href":"http:\/\/odz.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/odz.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/odz.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/odz.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/odz.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}