A fifty people They have concentrated this Saturday in the Sant Jaume square in Barcelona to protest against the entry of Vox in town halls throughout Catalonia after the municipal elections on May 28. Participants denounced a shift in politics “to the right” and they rejected “hate speech” from the formation.
One of the organizers, Dani Celma, has stressed to ACN the importance of “not allowing their representatives to govern or have the possibility of influencing the policies of the municipalities”. He has also urged the public to “mobilise” and not allow their ideas to have “any type of validity” so that “nobody believes them.”
different municipalities
The concentration began at seven in the afternoon and has brought together dozens of people from different municipalities where Vox has obtained good results in the last elections, either by entering the consistory, or by improving the results they obtained in the last call ago. four years. Celma has recognized that it is a trend that worries them and called for “unity” in all territories to “fight” against the messages of Vox and other candidacies that they may assimilate.
Celma believes that Vox’s rise is due to a very specific situation that allows “in times of crisis or uncertainty” the ideas that Vox defends can be easily bought by “people who find themselves in some discomfort” or, at the other extreme , by “very rich people”. In his opinion, the solution to prevent people from “buying these ideas” is to “demystify” them and counteract them with truthful arguments.
call to organization
Several people intervened during the event, including the activist from Reus Mohamed Said Badaoui, accused of radicalism and expelled to Morocco. All of them called the electoral results “bad news” for “society as a whole, for democracy and coexistence in general.”
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During the reading of the manifesto, it was recalled that then the whole of Catalunya Vox has obtained 124 councilors with more than 150,000 votes. Regarding the situation in Spain, it has been assured that “it is even worse, since there are more than 1,600 elected politicians, with a figure of more than 1.6 million votes”.
“The irruption of the extreme right in many town halls in Catalonia is disastrous in many ways. Its presence turns the entire political environment to the right and fuels racist and LGTBIphobic aggressions”, the document affirms unit that has been read. Faced with this situation, the signatory groups ask “not to resign” and continue “rejecting their hate speech.” In this sense, he puts on the table organizing protests against the constitution of the town halls in a few weeks, as well as a “collective and unitary” campaign facing the general elections on July 23.