Hallo! Hier ist ein Brite, der in Helsinki zum ersten Mal Ihr Land besucht! Liebe es. Ich bin auch ein politischer Nerd und habe heute an einer Plenarsitzung im Eduskunta teilgenommen – welche Bedeutung hat der Slogan an der Wand des Parlamentssaals? Danke.
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Von Hamilton94975
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– Aye
– Nay
– Blank
– Absent
Not a slogan 😀 but rather a counter for when they are voting on something, the numbers pop to the right hand side
Also an empty room with one fat dude on his phone is the perfect representation of our political culture. Take it all in, savour it.
It is used when voting.
Yes, No, Empty, Away.
Yes,
No,
No comment (=silent acceptance),
I-don’t-like-to-decide-difficult-things
Yeh
Nah
Dont feel like voting that
Too busy to be here
I love the feet in that statue, very well done fins
Yep
Nope
I don’t care
Gone
The background of these words is explained on this page in Finnish: https://www.eduskunta.fi/FI/naineduskuntatoimii/kirjasto/tietopalvelulta-kysyttya/Sivut/mista-juontavat-juurensa-aanestyksissa-kaytettavat-jaa-ja-ei.aspx
Basically yes in Swedish is ’ja’ and no ’nej’. We used to be part of Sweden and for voting these have developed to ’jaa’ and ’ei’ (nej -> ej -> ei).
We conjugate words, so the rest are maybe easier to understand, if one fills in what we are counting:
Tyhjiä (ääniä): empty (votes)
Poissa (olevia kansanedustajia): absent (members of parlament)
Yah, nah, mentally absent, physicallly absent