Friday, May 23, 2008

El Frente Sangilista

Almost live and direct from the front line of the Partido Popular’s power struggle comes this photo report from South of Watford’s very own “periodista ciudadano”. Oblivious to the risk posed to life and limb by mingling with so many angry, umbrella wielding pensioners, our ace reporter went to the PP’s headquarters in Madrid to bring you these images of the protest in support of Maria San Gil. There was no sign of an announced counter demonstration by Rajoy supporters, proof that a bit of rain soon separates the centro-derecha reformista from the derecha-centro reformista.




Maria si, MariaNo....





What would Aznar say about this?



Not so popular....



Who wants to win a pair of sunglasses?



Who said they're out of touch with popular culture?



What are we going to do without Maria? They will fight on, caiga quien caiga....



Or to be more precise, they were fighting Caiga Quien Caiga. Here we see the reporter from CQC being not so politely requested to leave the area....





But later they came back again....



The demonstrator that didn’t get interviewed by someone just wasn’t trying, I would put the ratio of journalists to demonstrators at about 1:2.



3 comments:

moscow said...

So, do you think there will be any 'primaries'?

Erik Wirdheim said...

Graeme,

I knew that you wouldn't fail us - thanks for the live report.

I'm amazed with this supposedly internal fight taking place right in front of us. When will you dare to give us a clue to what will happen next?

//Erik

Graeme said...

Blood will flow Erik, and there will be tears before bedtime.

@Moscow - I think if there is enough support for primaries then there is enough support to get rid of Rajoy with the existing system. The primaries issue has been raised as a another way of weakening Rajoy and not all of those opposed to him support the idea. Of course if Rajoy gets elected with 110% of the votes then things might change.