The curious initiative to encourage face-to-face voting by a hotelier from Seville is running like wildfire, and that is that the manager of the Bodega San Lorenzo has promised to invite a beer to all the people who demonstrate through a selfie that they have exercised their right to vote in person in the general elections of 23J.
“It’s a ‘chalaura’ of mine that came out as a joke among my friends on my Facebook but it has gone out of my way,” Ricardo Laguillo, manager of the establishment, explains to La Vanguardia with a laugh, “but we are going to continue with that forward ”, confirms the innkeeper.
Thus, this creative businessman published on his personal networks that “since we have elections on July 23 and given the uncertainty that voting by post brings”, the Bodega San Lorenzo, located at Calle Juan Rabadan 5, “invites beer to all citizens who present a selfie voting in person at any polling station”. “I didn’t expect it to have such an impact,” he says, but he assures that he will be delighted to receive all the vote that day and wants to spend some time in his establishment.
Laguillo clarifies that “no one has to comment on their vote, we only require that they attend and document their vote in person with a selfie, we take care of the rest,” the Facebook text adds.
“Coincidentally in the last elections, as my wife and I walked the Rocío road, I had to vote by mail”, something that he confesses that he does not like because he prefers to see his ballot in the ballot box. On this occasion, she wants to do it in person and to encourage others to do it too, he has had this initiative that is difficult to refuse in the summer heat of Seville: invite a cool Cruz Campo.
“It has nothing to do with politics nor do I identify with anything about politics,” he explained to La Vanguardia, but he believes that everyone should vote and the circumstances to do it in person in the middle of July are complicated, for this reason, since he will endure the heat that day, he invites others to do it too and enjoy a beer in his bar in the San Lorenzo neighborhood.
