As if it were an old thousand peseta bill, he folded it and kept it in his wallet. A treasure for those who knew the hardships of another time when freedoms were not abundant. But it was not a bill, not of a thousand, not of a hundred pesetas, no. Something much more valuable. His vote, his vote! The one he exercised with conviction, remembering the years in which only one decided for the whole of society, in a Spain in black and white.
He voted to be free and equal. Free, because it was not always possible, while now we choose the option we like best. Although she always had it clear, very clear. Equal, because the vote does not understand social classes, ages, surnames. The vote of Amancio Ortega, owner of Zara, is worth the same as ours.
How can we not understand his joy in going to the polls! What he will share next April 28 when the citizens of this country will once again elect our representatives in the Cortes Generales.
I am sure that he would not listen to the voices that say what is the point of voting if all parties and politicians are the same. I don't either, and that is why I will fold my ballot and vote for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, the party in which I am a member, and for my colleagues Ariagona González to the Congress and Manolo Fajardo to the Senate, in the hope that the social majority will entrust Pedro Sánchez with the leadership of this great country.
A country with pending challenges, of course, but with an exciting future in which social cohesion, the generation of opportunities and the recovery of the rights that the crisis and the "Marian Fridays" took away, will mark the program of the socialist party.
So that we can continue the path started months ago with the recovery of universal health care, the increase of the minimum interprofessional wage or the increase of pensions, I encourage you to honor past generations by exercising what it cost them so much to achieve: let's vote on 28A. Of course, I will go to the Alfonso Spínola school in Teguise so that the PSOE and Sánchez can once again guide the common project that Spain represents, without the need for chest-beating, but working every day from Finisterre to the eighth island for the well-being of all.
And to those who doubt the power of the vote, I invite them to encourage a historic participation that overcomes resignation, to staying at home or on the beach, because every vote counts so that some govern and not others. There are reasons to remember this in this campaign that is starting. To the polls!
*Marcos Bergaz, candidate for the PSOE to the City Council of Teguise
