Javier Rodrigo
Pamplona (EFE).- President Pedro Sánchez’s announcement of the call for general elections for July 23 has led many people from Pamplona to count their fingers backwards to find out that the beginning of the electoral campaign will take place at 00:00 hours of July 7, only twelve hours after the launch of the chupinazo of the Sanfermines.
There will be a special “ambience”, as we Navarrese say, in this year’s Sanfermines, with the bulls running through the streets and the giants and big heads dancing to the sound of bagpipes and drums… while the candidates try to make themselves heard among the crowd. crowd to seek the vote of some citizens busier in other matters.
Pairing between party and politics
Will any candidate run the running of the bulls with their party’s shirt? Will they give their central rallies in the bullring after the right-handers have passed six morlacos? Will there be brass bands playing the hymns of the parties in the streets?
These are just some of the questions that some people from Pamplona are astonished by the strange marriage between parties and politics that is coming their way.
Sense of humor before this unprecedented appointment
Although this curious coincidence is better digested with a little sense of humor. And, of course, social networks are quickly echoing the electoral call and drawing their own conclusions.
“General elections on July 23. How well we are going to reflect on Sanfermines”, affirms a tweeter under the photograph of a man from Pamplona soaked in wine and asleep on the fence of the running of the bulls.
Another laments in advance of an image that will surely be produced during the campaign: “That the electoral campaign for the general elections begins on July 7, San Fermín, means having to put up with politicians in Pamplona dressed in red and white and I don’t know if I’m prepared for so much ridicule…”
And a third asks himself a disturbing question: Will we see politicians campaigning for the general elections and getting their biggest drunken binges when they pass through Pamplona during San Fermín? Hopefully.
What is certain is that, with or without a sense of humor, these Sanfermines will see in Pamplona unprecedented scenes of candidates celebrating their electoral acts in a city turned “upside down”, as every year, by the most international festivals in the world.
“True things…”, which said that one. EFE