I just want to try and tell expats around Spain, to join in the democratic process. Often we feel separated from the democratic process here, as languages, cultures and representation is different. Also we cannot vote at a national level, despite the fact we work hard and pay our taxes here.
So I urge everyone who can to go and cast a vote. Why? Because it is our money that is being spent, our businesses that are being affected and our homes that are part of the community.
Please do not abstain.
Some press cuttings and thoughts:
"The crisis favours a populist rejection of politics, but the solution is not to abstain," said an editorial in the leading daily El Pais.
The conservative daily El Mundo said many young protesters were not alive when Spain transitioned to democracy after the death of General Francisco Franco in 1975.
"Maybe they don't know what it cost to get here. Democracy was a collective achievement of millions of Spaniards and it delivered longed-for freedoms but also the greatest period of development and economic prosperity in history," El Mundo said.
Spain's unemployment rate shot to 21.19 percent in the first quarter of this year, the highest in the industrialised world. For under-25s, the rate in February was 44.6 percent.
Spend our money? The PSOE here give it aawy in bribes to their cousins building companies!! Just look at want went missing in Expo in Sevile!
ReplyDeleteI think both parties are guilty of that here!
ReplyDeleteNot in Andalucia. The PP here don't have enough influence to order a coffee.
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