Sunday, May 22, 2011

Spain: the challenge is growing despite a ban on protests

The protests that have erupted in Spain Sunday, May 15 took a new dimension to three days of municipal and regional elections of May 22 The interior minister, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, has interrupted his actions Friday morning campaign from the capital to monitor the conduct of rallies, which have been declared unlawful by the electoral commission.

He refuses for now to indicate whether the police will be ordered to remove the thousands of participants expected on Friday night instead of Madrid's Puerta del Sol. A real village self appeared in less than five days in the heart of Madrid. The historic square of Puerta del Sol now has its own free school meals, his stand of legal information, the infirmary ...

And lately even on a day care center where calls for donations of toys. A total of 17 points are listed on the map distributed by the organizers, and evolves as new meters are stretched tarp to provide shade and shelter from the rain. The order is one of the obsessions of campers since the first night.

Everywhere, posters recall that the revolution is not a botellón ", the name of large gatherings of young people in Spain where the alcohol flows freely. Here we see the intoxication of a bad eye. Renamed the last few hours "Toma Plaza", "Take the place" in French, the camp appeared in Madrid Sunday, May 15 evening.

They were then a few hundred to want to spend the night on the Puerta del Sol. Thursday, thousands of people overflowed into the adjacent streets at the time of the great general meeting convened every night. Participants come to proclaim their "outrage" against the democratic system they want more transparent and participatory.

Meetings open to all working these days to develop more concrete proposals. Meanwhile, campers require an overhaul of the Spanish electoral law, which promotes bipartisanship between socialist PSOE and conservative People's Party, and denounce the crisis, unemployment and austerity measures adopted by the Executive in May 2010 Socialist .

According to police, the Puerta del Sol can contain up to 9000 people. In Barcelona, at least 500 campers spent the night in the Plaza Catalunya. They were also hundreds in many other Spanish cities. The movement began to exceed the borders of Spain and rallies were called Thursday in Paris, London, Budapest ...

In all, 175 sites were identified Friday afternoon on the Internet (http://j. Mp/m4E11d). Elections are scheduled Sunday in 13 regions and more than 8,000 municipalities. In Spain, all acts of political campaign is suspended forty-eight hours before the election for a period of "reflection".

It is based on this law and placing the right balance in meeting the campers that the Spanish election commission, composed of judges and experts in law, political science and sociology, has finally decided late Thursday night of does not allow demonstrations this weekend. Organizers of Madrid's camp for now ensure they will not budge.

The tee shot of the "retreat" should be marked at 00 h 05 on Saturday by a large "silent scream". According to the newspaper Público, the government would consider intervening only if the protesters were seriously undermine public order. The ban seemed in any case have caused an influx of new supporters of all ages and backgrounds, in Madrid on Friday.

Suit and tie for a jacket and jeans for the other two lawyers from 28 and 50 years were crowded to stand 13 hours before the law. "We are here to offer our services in case there would be detention because of the ban on demonstrations," said Manuel, the youngest. Nearby, Carlota, 54, shirt, small glasses, headband and metal brown leather bag, which she may seek to pass on his congratulations.

"I heard the organizers on TV yesterday, I wanted to encourage them," says the former PSOE voter who claims to feel "betrayed" by his party. "I was not able to stay until now because of my work. But tonight I'll spend the night here with my boyfriend. "The Socialist Prime Minister Jose Zapatero LuisRodriguez admitted on Friday morning that he was 25 he" would certainly "also on the square." How can you not understand that people who do not find work occur? "he said on the airwaves of Cadena Ser.

According to recent surveys, the Socialist Party may lose many of its historic strongholds Sunday. Elodie Cuzin

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