The party says people are “encouraging us a lot” to stand for election and are giving it “the opportunity to present our proposal to Spaniards,” said Lorenzo Gastón, SALF’s deputy secretary for Regional Organization in Aragón. Curious onlookers, drawn by the social media popularity of its leader, Alvise Pérez, take the opportunity to ask about the party’s ideals and what it intends to defend.
In this regard, Lorenzo Gastón summed up the party’s program in several key points: housing for young people, healthcare, public services, tax cuts, support for the self-employed, assistance for motherhood and “controlled immigration so that people in our country are here legally.” “I believe these are ideas that 99% of citizens share and that they see we are like them: working people,” he said.
Gastón also explained what collecting signatures during the Pilar festivities has been like. He noted that, on the one hand, it is positive because there is “a lot of foot traffic,” but on the other, it is negative because many tourists approach them and “we have to explain that their signature is not valid here and that they can sign for us in their own province.”
SALF has been collecting the required endorsements since Saturday, with around 10,000 signatures needed, and will continue until this Friday, when the party’s leader, Alvise Pérez, will travel to Zaragoza to support them. Next week, they will have to submit the credentials needed to stand in the various constituencies.
