Nearly 1,000 users of municipal senior centers in the 21 districts of Madrid have participated in a flash mob on the esplanade in front of the Royal Palace to commemorate International Women’s Day and demand equality and visibility for older women.

The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, together with the delegate of Social Policies, Family and Equality, José Fernández, and councilors from several districts, has witnessed the performance that is part of the activities organized by the City Council around the 8 March and with which, Almeida pointed out, from the city of Madrid “we recognize” in a special way “the older women, who have given the best of their lives for future generations.”

Almeida has insisted on the need to continue demanding “the fight for equality” and that this demand be carried out “from offices and institutions, but also from the streets” to achieve “a society in which women and men are equal.”

As in the previous edition, this initiative has started from the senior centers of Puente de Vallecas and, after the success of last year’s call, the centers from the 21 districts have joined. The music of the choreography that this thousand women have performed has once again been the song It’s overfrom the Colombian group Bomba Estéreo.

The objective of this urban action is to convey a message in favor of equality between men and women and against gender violence and also to offer the possibility for older women to have visibility in a public space as significant as the Palace esplanade. Real. Before concluding the event, the participants read a manifesto that, on this occasion, was written by the users of the senior centers in the district of Tetuán./

The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida

Reading of the manifesto written by the women of the municipal senior centers of the Tetuán district