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Spanish socialists use perversion to get out the vote
The Guardian – November 18, 2010
Catalan Socialists cast the act of voting, for them, as an orgasm
Party’s youth wing hopes video of woman reaching her peak of excitement while voting will attract apathetic young voters
By Giles Tremlett
Apathetic non-voters in the eastern Spanish region of Catalonia who find elections tedious or unexciting are being encouraged to see the act of voting as an experience comparable only to sex.
The local Socialist party’s youth wing equates voting with orgasms in a campaign video for the Catalan elections that features a young woman who finds casting her vote such a turn-on that she cannot help reaching a peak of excitement in front of some bewildered polling officers.
The voting climax hopes to entice disillusioned young leftwingers to cast a vote for the region’s beleagured Socialists, led by José Montilla, who look set to lose power in the region on 28 November.
The rival Catalan nationalist Convergence and Union coalition today slammed their opponent’s video as “filth”, while the conservative People’s party accused the young socialists “of using women and attacking their dignity”.