The Spaniards began Sunday, May 22 to vote for regional and municipal elections, when a wave of unprecedented social rebellion against unemployment and the crisis gripping the country. Tens of thousands of protesters have invaded again Saturday evening and at night the streets and squares across Spain.
In Madrid, a huge crowd had gathered at the Puerta del Sol, where the encampment of tents and tarpaulins for young people "outraged" became the heart of the dispute. Fearing clashes, the Socialist government did not enforce the ban by the force of demonstration, which came into effect Friday at midnight and making illegal political rallies one day before an election.
In this troubled context, to ten months of the legislative elections of March 2012, all municipalities of Spain elect their municipal councils and 13 of the 17 autonomous regions of their parliaments. Catalonia, the Basque Country, Galicia and Andalusia vote on other dates. The announcement on April 2 by the Chief Minister Jose Zapatero LuisRodriguez he would not run for a third term in 2012 appears to have remained without effect on the declining popularity of the Socialists.
From Monday, they could no longer control one of the 17 Spanish regions of Andalusia, and are expected to lose as fiefs historical region of Castile-La Mancha and Extremadura. Hundreds of readers of the World. en, for most Spaniards or the French living in Spain have witnessed the situation in the country while the movement of 15 May (the "15-M") is growing.
If the gloomy economic outlook have pooled some of these "outraged", their claims are broader. They criticize the electoral system that clash sees the PP and PSOE, without the government parties do not represent. They also bemoan a system that gives citizens a "consumer value". Altruistic, by P.
Victory What is striking about the demands of demonstrators is their altruistic nature. The Spanish people have understood that the crisis was too deep to be able to deal with sudden acts of individualists. (...) The Spanish want to get out together. It seems to me that goes beyond mere economic demand for access to employment and increase purchasing power.
No, what is questioned is the very place of the human being in his company. What also surprised me was the incredible peacefulness of the event. There were no incidents with the police. Extremely surprising when you consider that it was theoretically forbidden to manifest and often for a simple victory of FC Barcelona, the police out the big guns for disciper festive gatherings on the streets of the city.
A gap between politicians and the public by Clemente N. It is important to note that the nickname of the protesters' los indignados "was directly inspired by the book Stéphane HesselIndignez you, recently published here. Since this movement has grown, all Spanish newspapers published interviews with the politician when he says such "very pleasantly surprised by the movements of protest and indignation of peace and friendly in Spain." Currently studying in Madrid, I could see the impressive growth of this movement.
The protesters are primarily focused on denouncing the enormous gap between the entire political class and the people - as in France? - And one of their main demands is to simply have tools to show the magnitude of this gap (counting blank votes in elections for example). The Spaniards are fed up with lies, lack of concrete initiatives to face the crisis and stagnation and mounting unemployment.
Policies and responses, seeking by every means to stop this movement, are simply suicidal and only fuel the movement. I sincerely believe that the police do not dislodge the protesters because the risk of violent overflow would be too great. Is-that this movement will continue after the regional and municipal elections on Sunday? It is a question that all Spaniards were too arise from the rope, she ended up breaking, by Jenni I am Spanish and I live in Valencia.
(...) This is not only a revolution of youth who did not work ... In the expressions, one can see people of all ages betrayed by our politicians, who do not hesitate to submit their lists of politicians accused of stealing money from people. People who see their wages go down without explanation, people who are outraged to see when the welfare while reducing the banks receive large sums.
It was too stretched rope, she ended up breaking. Long live the 15-M! The Rise of Spanish youth, Hugo A. As a student in Madrid, I saw the posters at the university inviting youth "futuro sin" to rally on May 15 It is this short demonstration of a kilometer away, which eventually turned into a sit-in which the term remains the great unknown.
Although the official message is to hold until the elections, some are planning to extend the movement and hope it spreads to Europe, and Spain serve as a bridge between North Africa and the old continent. Greek flags and Iceland also float alongside the Egyptian banner. Surprisingly for a French pacifist used to seeing for events escalate, the mobilization may seem numerically small, but it is organized, hard, and is growing.
While on the canvas the event has generated the greatest number of tweets globally, Plaza del Sol begins to be too small to accommodate the "outraged" that overflowed on Friday on the adjacent streets. Unlike France, where we hear some gossip about the excesses of challenges here, immobility and reign in times of crisis, exasperated.
For proof, this placard that read: "the French and the Greeks are fighting for the Spaniards winning at football." If the consequences of this movement does not prove up to the expectations raised, it will at least have the merit of awakening a Spanish youth who suffers unemployment of nearly 50%.
Lack of respect for the political class, by Eugenia Q. I am Spanish. I live in Girona. I am 52 years old and I am a teacher. I'm all for this protest movement in Spain. The reason for my outrage is the lack of respect for the political class against Spanish citizens. These politicians only see their own little world, without listening, even during these days, the cries of thousands of people protesting against the loss of our purchasing power, social rights, against unemployment of nearly 5 million people against corrupt politicians.
(...) The Spaniards claim a true democratic system that gives real voice to citizens. Neither political parties nor the unions do not represent us. We are disappointed with a system for which we are a commodity. We value than as consumers. I hope this movement will not stop after the elections.
We need a change in social and political model, and it will not be possible under the current system gives more privileges to the privileged and increased social inequality. A lesson for France by Francois R. Although many young people participate in demonstrations, it's more a generational movement, mixing social classes.
(...) It is very far from a student protest itself, but in a substantive challenge of Spanish society as a whole and in its diversity. I confirm the particularly serious aspect of this movement. Indeed, the "village" of the Puerta del Sol is a space organized and we are not witnessing scenes of alcohol as one might see in France in a similar context.
So I think that France, so proud of its culture of protest, has lessons to take to avoid that his challenges are classified by socio-cultural and that the protesters are becoming more serious, all this can give a little The impact of these events. A breath of fresh air in a stifling day, Jean-François A.
The camps that are currently proliferating at the speed of the Web are a breath of fresh air in the social and economic atmosphere sweltering in Spain. They are the logical response to a structural crisis which neither the PP nor the PSOE would have been able to provide is an idea to improve the situation, too busy to play war games or manage their small and shenanigans corruptions which drive this country even more.
This movement will soon ... and I think he has already several steps ahead. Democracia real, by Baptiste R. In Bilbao, the movement of 15-M evolves with amazing speed. They were only 20 on May 15 to protest before the ayuntamiento (town hall) in solidarity with Madrid's La puerta. They are now more than 1000 having spent the night of Friday, May 20 before the Arriaga Theatre.
A canteen is installed, a movie screen too. On the facade overlooking the majestic theater Nervion (the local river) are broadcast tweets from all over Spain to call the silent scream of tomorrow evening. Everywhere the same claims and even outrage, that of young people without jobs but also pensioners, unemployed, of these "outraged" that refuse bipartisanship and call for a more transparent, more participatory democracy through associations neighborhood, the extension of the referendum or the vote of immigrants: "They share our pain, they share our homework, but they do not have our rights," chanted one protester and through the microphone and speaker, on loan to occasionally.
Human values, by Anais A. It is not only a reaction against the economic crisis. It's more a reaction to the ethical crisis, lack of honesty in the handling of human values, their denial to face economic values. (...) I am moved by Joan A. Place a placard pasted yesterday of Catalonia in Barcelona can be summed up the mood: "I was in Paris em May 68 and I'm excited.
I'm 72 years". Bbc. en 
In Madrid, a huge crowd had gathered at the Puerta del Sol, where the encampment of tents and tarpaulins for young people "outraged" became the heart of the dispute. Fearing clashes, the Socialist government did not enforce the ban by the force of demonstration, which came into effect Friday at midnight and making illegal political rallies one day before an election.
In this troubled context, to ten months of the legislative elections of March 2012, all municipalities of Spain elect their municipal councils and 13 of the 17 autonomous regions of their parliaments. Catalonia, the Basque Country, Galicia and Andalusia vote on other dates. The announcement on April 2 by the Chief Minister Jose Zapatero LuisRodriguez he would not run for a third term in 2012 appears to have remained without effect on the declining popularity of the Socialists.
From Monday, they could no longer control one of the 17 Spanish regions of Andalusia, and are expected to lose as fiefs historical region of Castile-La Mancha and Extremadura. Hundreds of readers of the World. en, for most Spaniards or the French living in Spain have witnessed the situation in the country while the movement of 15 May (the "15-M") is growing.
If the gloomy economic outlook have pooled some of these "outraged", their claims are broader. They criticize the electoral system that clash sees the PP and PSOE, without the government parties do not represent. They also bemoan a system that gives citizens a "consumer value". Altruistic, by P.
Victory What is striking about the demands of demonstrators is their altruistic nature. The Spanish people have understood that the crisis was too deep to be able to deal with sudden acts of individualists. (...) The Spanish want to get out together. It seems to me that goes beyond mere economic demand for access to employment and increase purchasing power.
No, what is questioned is the very place of the human being in his company. What also surprised me was the incredible peacefulness of the event. There were no incidents with the police. Extremely surprising when you consider that it was theoretically forbidden to manifest and often for a simple victory of FC Barcelona, the police out the big guns for disciper festive gatherings on the streets of the city.
A gap between politicians and the public by Clemente N. It is important to note that the nickname of the protesters' los indignados "was directly inspired by the book Stéphane HesselIndignez you, recently published here. Since this movement has grown, all Spanish newspapers published interviews with the politician when he says such "very pleasantly surprised by the movements of protest and indignation of peace and friendly in Spain." Currently studying in Madrid, I could see the impressive growth of this movement.
The protesters are primarily focused on denouncing the enormous gap between the entire political class and the people - as in France? - And one of their main demands is to simply have tools to show the magnitude of this gap (counting blank votes in elections for example). The Spaniards are fed up with lies, lack of concrete initiatives to face the crisis and stagnation and mounting unemployment.
Policies and responses, seeking by every means to stop this movement, are simply suicidal and only fuel the movement. I sincerely believe that the police do not dislodge the protesters because the risk of violent overflow would be too great. Is-that this movement will continue after the regional and municipal elections on Sunday? It is a question that all Spaniards were too arise from the rope, she ended up breaking, by Jenni I am Spanish and I live in Valencia.
(...) This is not only a revolution of youth who did not work ... In the expressions, one can see people of all ages betrayed by our politicians, who do not hesitate to submit their lists of politicians accused of stealing money from people. People who see their wages go down without explanation, people who are outraged to see when the welfare while reducing the banks receive large sums.
It was too stretched rope, she ended up breaking. Long live the 15-M! The Rise of Spanish youth, Hugo A. As a student in Madrid, I saw the posters at the university inviting youth "futuro sin" to rally on May 15 It is this short demonstration of a kilometer away, which eventually turned into a sit-in which the term remains the great unknown.
Although the official message is to hold until the elections, some are planning to extend the movement and hope it spreads to Europe, and Spain serve as a bridge between North Africa and the old continent. Greek flags and Iceland also float alongside the Egyptian banner. Surprisingly for a French pacifist used to seeing for events escalate, the mobilization may seem numerically small, but it is organized, hard, and is growing.
While on the canvas the event has generated the greatest number of tweets globally, Plaza del Sol begins to be too small to accommodate the "outraged" that overflowed on Friday on the adjacent streets. Unlike France, where we hear some gossip about the excesses of challenges here, immobility and reign in times of crisis, exasperated.
For proof, this placard that read: "the French and the Greeks are fighting for the Spaniards winning at football." If the consequences of this movement does not prove up to the expectations raised, it will at least have the merit of awakening a Spanish youth who suffers unemployment of nearly 50%.
Lack of respect for the political class, by Eugenia Q. I am Spanish. I live in Girona. I am 52 years old and I am a teacher. I'm all for this protest movement in Spain. The reason for my outrage is the lack of respect for the political class against Spanish citizens. These politicians only see their own little world, without listening, even during these days, the cries of thousands of people protesting against the loss of our purchasing power, social rights, against unemployment of nearly 5 million people against corrupt politicians.
(...) The Spaniards claim a true democratic system that gives real voice to citizens. Neither political parties nor the unions do not represent us. We are disappointed with a system for which we are a commodity. We value than as consumers. I hope this movement will not stop after the elections.
We need a change in social and political model, and it will not be possible under the current system gives more privileges to the privileged and increased social inequality. A lesson for France by Francois R. Although many young people participate in demonstrations, it's more a generational movement, mixing social classes.
(...) It is very far from a student protest itself, but in a substantive challenge of Spanish society as a whole and in its diversity. I confirm the particularly serious aspect of this movement. Indeed, the "village" of the Puerta del Sol is a space organized and we are not witnessing scenes of alcohol as one might see in France in a similar context.
So I think that France, so proud of its culture of protest, has lessons to take to avoid that his challenges are classified by socio-cultural and that the protesters are becoming more serious, all this can give a little The impact of these events. A breath of fresh air in a stifling day, Jean-François A.
The camps that are currently proliferating at the speed of the Web are a breath of fresh air in the social and economic atmosphere sweltering in Spain. They are the logical response to a structural crisis which neither the PP nor the PSOE would have been able to provide is an idea to improve the situation, too busy to play war games or manage their small and shenanigans corruptions which drive this country even more.
This movement will soon ... and I think he has already several steps ahead. Democracia real, by Baptiste R. In Bilbao, the movement of 15-M evolves with amazing speed. They were only 20 on May 15 to protest before the ayuntamiento (town hall) in solidarity with Madrid's La puerta. They are now more than 1000 having spent the night of Friday, May 20 before the Arriaga Theatre.
A canteen is installed, a movie screen too. On the facade overlooking the majestic theater Nervion (the local river) are broadcast tweets from all over Spain to call the silent scream of tomorrow evening. Everywhere the same claims and even outrage, that of young people without jobs but also pensioners, unemployed, of these "outraged" that refuse bipartisanship and call for a more transparent, more participatory democracy through associations neighborhood, the extension of the referendum or the vote of immigrants: "They share our pain, they share our homework, but they do not have our rights," chanted one protester and through the microphone and speaker, on loan to occasionally.
Human values, by Anais A. It is not only a reaction against the economic crisis. It's more a reaction to the ethical crisis, lack of honesty in the handling of human values, their denial to face economic values. (...) I am moved by Joan A. Place a placard pasted yesterday of Catalonia in Barcelona can be summed up the mood: "I was in Paris em May 68 and I'm excited.
I'm 72 years". Bbc. en
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