Saturday, 21 May 2011

15-M in Spain

A young group of Spanish people encouraged Spanish citizens to take the streets the 15th May in order to complain about the social and economical situation of Spain. So through internet this movement has extended and nowadays thousand of people took the principal squares of most of the Spanish cities ( Puerta del Sol in Madrid, Plaza Cataluna in Barcelona, Plaza de la Encarnación in Seville...).



On 22nd May Spanish citizens are called to polls to elect local parties and by law, the reflexion day should be off of political demonstrations. At this point politians don't come to an agreement . While some demand this demonstration to disperse , others ( including the people in the demonstration) referes that it is not a political demonstration that it is not against government , it is a complain about the popular situation in the country.  Seems that finally, Spanish government took the decision of let the popular demonstration be with no police intervention.

Journals who published some news about the demonstration: el periódico, el país, la vanguardia, el mundo, le figaro, new york times...

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