While the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, outlined the initiative of the European Union (EU) and Spain’s own plan, outside the Congress of Deputies about 850 social groups and representatives of the world of culture held a protest.

Actors such as Juan Diego Botto, Javier Bardem, Luis Tosar, Carolina Yuste, Aitana Sánchez Gijón, Alberto San Juan, Ana Turpin or Guillermo Toledo, among others. Aàrecem is among the signatories of the document.

It also has the backing of legislators from the Sumar group, the Podemos, Bildu, Izquierda Unida and BNG parties, among others.

Bardem and Botto read the Manifesto called ‘We are not resigned to rearmament and war in Europe’. It stresses that society needs the security provided by quality public health and education, access to decent housing for young people and guaranteed pensions for the elderly, rather than a rearmament plan.

“We do not want our children and grandchildren to experience the horror of war,” the text says, which also questions the future in peace, “the unbridled increase in military spending that European governments are proposing to approve without citizen debate, without transparency or detail, and with urgency.”

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