Those who stayed behind began to vote in strange ways – electing, for example, the successors of the old Communist parties that they had been glad to get rid of only a few years before.
後に残った人々は奇妙な投票をするようになった―例えば、たった数年前にやっとおさらばしたはずの旧共産党の後継者を選んだりし始めた。