In Spain, the day before the elections is called the "jornada de reflexión" (introspection day) and it is forbidden for political parties to publish or make anything, to respect the population right to freely decide.
This has been used as a tool to forbid the demonstations on the day prior to the elections. The demonstrators are aguing that they do not belong to any political party and that the demonstrations aren't backed by any political means. The demonstration are asking for a better election system, more participation of people in the government, transparency on the government, the repudiation of corruption and the separation of powers.
Tonight at 20.30 (GMT+1) this matter will be discussed and voted upon by the demonstrators to decide what to do, but I personally think this won't stop tonight, this will continue tomorrow and the Sunday (elections day) with even more people backing us up because of the weekend and the reaction of the political parties on these past days.
Hey there.
ReplyDeleteSome greetings from Sweden and a gracias for posting some news in English.
Keep updating - There are a growing number of people spreading the link through twitter ;)
Beelzebjörn, thanks.
ReplyDeleteThere are going to be small demostrations today supporting the ones in Spain at least in Göteborg (at 17:30 in Gustav Adolfs Torg) and Stockholm (at 16:00 in front of the spanish embassy). There will be various spanish people there who won't mind explaining to journalists what's happening, so if you know any journalist just tell him to go.
I have a few journalists and politicians on twitter. Given that a bomb just went off in central Stockholm and that very little's been said in Swedish media, I'm not overly optimistic there will be a lot of attention, but it's tweeted ;)
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