Video: Coup d'état every year: a putsch festival in Spain
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The previous year passed in the world under the sign coup d'état … Many prosperous countries have already drowned in the waves of post-crisis popular indignations - unfortunately, here, in the post-Soviet space, the boat is also shaken to the point. But that's what it is! Here in the Spanish city of Ibi, a coup d'état is a good annual tradition.
December 28 in the city of Ibi in the province of Alicante is a politically alarming date. The mayor on this day usually puts on clothes that are not very sorry, because he knows: today he is destined to be rolled in flour and thrown with eggs. After all, the essence of the festival Els Enfarinats - to show the city authorities in a comic form that there is no need to be arrogant. Participants a coup festival they are also preparing seriously: they dress in militarized suits, prepare "weapons", recruit a group of street musicians and paint plans for seizing power.
However, regardless of the disposition, the seizure of power is always the same. At 8 am, revolutionary troops enter the city and begin a coup. At 9 am, during a running competition, it is decided who will be the mayor of the city during the uprising. Before 12 there are outbreaks of revolutionary terror: the putschists pretend to imprison the unfinished counter. Until five in the evening, there is a civil war with the use of egg weapons and flour bombs.
AT 17:00 comic coup d'etat ends. Everything returns to normal, and the townspeople indulge in dancing and festival fun.
This tradition is over 200 years old. Maybe European democracy begins with similar rituals (like carnivals in Germany and Italy, during which there were no authorities or authorities, or some kind of Tomatina in Spain)? If the people could express their indignation by throwing a sack of flour in the face of Pyotr Ivanovich from the tax office or Sidorenko's traffic cop - you see, there would be no need to go to the Maidan or Bolotnaya:-)
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