Madrid (EFE).- The Central Electoral Board has ordered the partial removal of a giant canvas that the civil organization Avaaz had deployed against “hate pacts” in the Madrid neighborhood of Chueca.
He has thus agreed with Vox, who had requested the removal of that canvas, on which you could originally read “23J Vote against hate pacts.”
After the resolution of the Central Electoral Board, those responsible for that campaign have eliminated the word “vote” and now the giant banner reads: “23J against hate pacts.”
The canvas also includes a montage with photographs of the presidents of the PP and Vox, Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Santiago Abascal, and the message: “Disregarding women’s rights is not patriotism. Homophobia is not freedom.
As reported by Vox in a press release after learning of the resolution, the Electoral Board has demanded the withdrawal of the word “vote” and has also asked the organization responsible for this initiative to eliminate the advertising campaign associated with that giant canvas from the social networks.
In its resolution, the Board has observed that with the original banner “not only is it influencing or influencing the direction of the vote, but in fact it is trying to capture votes in favor of certain political formations”, reported the formation of Santiago Abascal .
The Electoral Board has indicated in its writing that in accordance with the Electoral Law, no legal person other than candidates, groups, coalitions, or parties may carry out an electoral campaign from the date of the election call.
The activist organization Avaaz has also published a press release after the resolution of the Electoral Board in which it ensures that it has already fulfilled that mandate and several workers have proceeded this morning to cut out the word “vote” from the giant canvas, while the rest of the banner remains “intact”.
Avaaz reaction
Patricia Martín, Avaaz campaign director, has stated that “Vox’s attempt to silence the action of our citizen community in Pedro Zerolo square serves as a bitter appetizer of what may be to come.”
In the press release that this organization has sent to the media after cutting the canvas, the person in charge of this organization has denounced that “the same party that gave the chupinazo of this electoral campaign with the infamous canvas that threw away the rights and the dignity of millions of Spanish men and women, now accuses Avaaz of hate crimes for opposing his macho and homophobic discourse”.
“The mutilated canvas now becomes a clear symbol of the gigantic tear that Vox can make in our democracy if it accedes to the government of Spain after 23J”, denounced Patricia Martín.
The giant canvases or banners have burst into force during the present electoral campaign and have provoked successive controversies, mainly those that have been deployed in Madrid by some political parties and various social organizations.
The one deployed several days ago by Avaaz in the Madrid neighborhood of Chueca was added to other previous ones deployed by the organization dedicated to extrajudicial evictions Desokupa (“You to Morocco, Desokupa to Moncloa!”), later covered for a few hours by another of the Movement for Housing in Madrid, or the one deployed by the environmental organization Greenpeace in the Puerta de Alcalá (“Does climate change sweat you?”).