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Popular consultations on the monarchy in more than twenty Spanish universities
Hundreds of people have participated until Thursday at noon in the symbolic referendum on the monarchy that takes place this Thursday at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) organized by a student assembly, an initiative that will be replicated in other 25 Spanish universities until the February, and that follows the wake of popular votes held recently in Madrid neighborhoods like Vallecas or Vicálvaro.
Some 70 people, including teachers, have set up polling stations in the nine faculties of the Madrid university, most of them located on the campus of Cantoblanco, north of the capital, from 10 am. Up to 20 hours on this Thursday will be able to vote students, professors and workers of the UAM.
"Are you in favor of abolishing the Monarchy as a form of State and establishing a Republic?" And "If yes, are you in favor of opening constituent processes to decide what kind of Republic?" These are the two questions that can be answered with a 'yes' or a 'no' in the consultation that is exceeding the expectations of the organizers.
"As we are the first university that organized it, we did not know how the people would respond, but we are very surprised", explains Paula, a student of Sciences and Languages of Antiquity, at the table of the School of Philosophy and Letters where students flocked about 11 hours taking advantage of the rest between class and class.
In the attached faculty, that of the Magisterium, the organizers have met people waiting before 10 am to vote. "My teacher has started the class saying that today was a great day," says Olivia, who participates in the assembly that organizes the consultation to claim "to be able to decide on the State form".
"I think it's a very good initiative for students to organize themselves and for the University to become a center of reflection for society," says Marta, a professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, after depositing her ballot in the ballot box. He does so after a colleague who questions the organizers about the guarantees of the consultation. "I voted to say that I am against those who organize these things, it is immoral and they are against democratic systems," he explained.
At the table, on the other side of the urn, another teacher carries the account of participants, a hundred in the first hour. "It is the first step to reform the Constitution and abolish the monarchy to constitute a confederal republic," says Xosé, who teaches the subject of Economic Structure of Spain in the European Union. He is accompanied by David, a student who marks a cross with a marker in his hand to each participant in the voting.
"We can not ask for the DNI, this is a symbolic act. We trust in the good faith of the people and that they will not vote twice, "he explains. After the closing of the polls, the persons in charge of each table will meet at 21.00 hours in the Faculty of Sciences to do the scrutiny. "The polls are filling, good!" Exclaims a worker raising his thumb as he passes one of the tables.
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