Logroño, (EFE).- The La Rioja town of Alfaro burns again this resurrection Sunday its “Judas”, some dolls distributed by the municipality that mainly represent politicians or celebrities and that seek to leave behind the bad things they have done during the year to “resurrect” in the next 365 days.
Alfaro’s “Burning of the Judas” has become one of the most striking traditions at the end of Holy Week in La Rioja, where they emulate small “fallas” with the meaning of giving fire to all the characters that during the year they have had a reprehensible behavior, in the opinion of the neighbors.
Since Holy Saturday, fifty “Judas” have been hanging in different areas of Alfaro, although some of them have become so “sophisticated” that they have different pieces, with which more than a hundred figures are going to burn, the councilor of Environment of the municipality, Carmen Ovejas, who participates in one of the groups that creates these figures.
Each of these groups chooses a theme in which to “frame” their figures “and for example we have chosen universal literature” and works such as “Romeo and Juliet, which are Santiago Abascal and Giorgia Meloni, respectively, or the Little Prince, which is Alberto Núñez Feijóo ”, he details.
Thus, in different areas of Alfaro, Pedro Sánchez, Carlos III, Vladimir Putin or Donald Trump will also be set on fire symbolically; Other characters such as the cook Daviz Muñoz or his wife, the presenter Cristina Pedroche, will not escape the flames either.
“You don’t have to find any special reason for these characters to be here, just that someone in the group decides that because of what they did this year they deserve to be burned and when an agreement is reached, the figure begins to be created,” he detailed. Ovejas, who does not believe that there is “any controversy” about the chosen characters “although perhaps a little morbid”.
In addition, each group has a person in charge of justifying the reasons why each “Judas” is hung with a sarcastic text that also gives this party another incentive, since hundreds of people visit the figures and analyze the “arguments” in detail. of each judas
“Judas was a traitor and that is why he deserved this ending, and we also want to burn the bad things of the year on Easter Sunday to make way for better things,” justifies the mayor of Alfaro.