Four years later, the social movement “15M” Spanish is … – Terra Colombia

Four years after a spontaneous rally of “outraged” occupied the Puerta del Sol, in the heart of Madrid, questioning democracy from the ground up, this movement has become a political current.

Many of those who camped in the square from May 15, 2011 and those who followed them across Spain have now made the leap to politics, well within popular applications such as Barcelona or Madrid for the municipal elections of May 24, well within Podemos party born in 2014 heir of that outrage it is recognized.

Tomorrow, the indignant return to the street with a protest at the Puerta del Sol that precede a demonstration on Saturday 16 May.

They also have planned a rally in the bullring next May 23, the eve of the election, which in Spain is called day of reflection, in which electoral campaigning is prohibited.

That day, the organizers have provided a “silent scream”, an assembly and cacerolada.

“The movement made policy from the beginning” Zapata told EFE Guillemo, presented in Madrid Now candidacy in municipal elections.

Zapata 15M understood as a tool that has enabled the cycle that after the European elections of 2014 opened, with the emergence of we as a possible driving force in the Spanish political landscape.

In addition to the party, born 15M various social movements such as the Platform of People Affected by Mortgage (PAH), which defends victims of the bursting of the “housing bubble” that occurred in Spain from 2008, or the different “tides”, groups that defend social rights such as public health and education.

Carlos Paredes, spokesman for the group “Real Democracy Now” during those days, he witnessed what was called as a simple demonstration ended in such a big movement.

In your opinion, nobody can deny that we both like the different popular applications “drink ideologically” 15M and that they have collected the movement that spirit of democratic regeneration.

On the other hand, the author of “The 15M and the promise of politics”, Miguel Angel Presno, is less optimistic about the fruits of the movement.

“has not succeeded in changing the way of doing politics and there are few changes in how you exercise,” he laments, but states that some of its claims, as the demand for transparency, have been adopted by other “old and new “political parties.