Several influential folks from the world of cinema, theater and literature have signed a manifesto demanding the vote for progressive formations. Citizens go to the polls! is the motto of this marketing campaign, which has been joined by personalities akin to Elvira Sastre, Carmen Machi or Rossy de Palma, amongst others. The manifesto, introduced this Wednesday, delves into the truth that these elections are “particularly decisive” within the face of the “new conservative offensive”
The singer-songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat, the singer Rozalen, the movie director Pedro Almodóvar, the presenter Andreu Buenafente or the actors Juan Diego Botto and Javier Bardem are a number of the personalities who’ve signed a manifesto that calls for the vote for progressive formations for 23J .
Under the title ‘Citizens to the polls!’, the actresses Anabel Alonso, Ana Belén María Barranco, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Carmen Machi, Rossy de Palma, Mercedes Sampietro, María Botto and Leonor Watling, along with the actors Carlos Bardem, Pedro Casablanc, Mario Gas, Pepe Viyuela, Héctor Alterio, José Sacristán, Alberto San Juan and Juan Echanove.
On the opposite hand, when it comes to literature, Javier Cercas, Elvira Sastre, Isaac Rosa, Benjamin Prado, Elvira Lindo, Luis Landero and Luis García Montero, who can be director of the Cervantes Institute, additionally signal the manifesto.
Key elections within the face of a “conservative offensive”
Also amongst those that help the textual content are the leaders of the CCOO and UGT, Unai Sordo and Pepe Álvarez respectively, the previous basic secretary of the PSOE Joaquín Almunia, the previous mayor of Madrid, Manuela Carmena and the previous socialist chief Diego López Garrido. They are joined by tv presenters José Miguel Monzón, ‘El gran Wyoming’, Alonso Caparros and Inés Hernand.
Precisely this Wednesday the content material of the doc was introduced in an act in Madrid with the lawyer and former basic secretary of the PCE Nicolás Sartorius, along with the leaders of the CCOO and UGT.
The manifesto deepens that these elections are “particularly decisive” within the face of the “new conservative offensive” with “far-right derivations” and that they’ll generate a pattern of “new setback in social and civil rights.”
Later, he recounts that within the crises of the Covid pandemic and within the struggle in Ukraine, insurance policies have been deployed whose goal was the safety of residents, one thing that was attainable given that there have been progressive executives in nations like Spain.
Decisive second within the historical past of Spain
“It could be unfair and short-sighted to not acknowledge that within the legislature that’s now ending, society and the coalition authorities of Spain have needed to face fully unprecedented conditions (…) with a really favorable consequence when it comes to social progress, progress and the steadiness of employment with the most important improve skilled by the minimal wage and pensions”, the manifesto deepens.
Therefore, and in view of those “very particular and decisive moments within the historical past of Spain and Europe”, they name on the general public to go to the polls en masse, from “the agency conviction that this isn’t the time for setbacks and regressions”.
Moreover, they proclaim that it’s time to “advance in the direction of increased ranges of well-being, freedom, equality and solidarity fraternity, represented by the events which have supported these insurance policies of progress”, they conclude.
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