His name is Jesus Manuel Román Estrade, and for the vast majority remains an unknown, but he is the promoter of the May 15th Movement, and what is already known on the Internet as Spanishrevolution. Who is it really? 36 years of age and a native of Jerez de la Frontera, Román Estrade is a left-wing blogger, Internet pioneer and editor of Barrapunto, a free software blog, which he explains in his website, "works thanks to hackers. "
It currently earns a living as a designer of web environments. One day he found himself to be sick of the system, registered the domain democraciarealya-us, and started a campaign to launch a nonviolent revolution that would unite youth with no future, unemployed, retired and low-income.
Today he complains about politicians and accuses them of not listening to people but, in the regional elections of 2000, he also wanted a position in public administration. He introduced himself as number one for the Andalusian Left party, Huelva, a division of United Left ideology clearly nationalist, in an attempt to enter the regional parliament.
Under the power of Facebook
Denies politicians, and apparently also on their ideology. "Not a thing of socialist," he says in his own web. "In March I joined a Facebook group. They were organizing what we all know now, about 200 people, were sharing the motto and the date of the demonstration, so I said I am a computer engineer, I asked if they needed to set up a web outside Facebook, I asked which domain to buy, I bought it, and I got to work ...".
That is how Real Democracy was born. Without a defined ideology, as the ones now camping in Sol "It seems some people do not understand that the citizens can organize beyond political parties and unions." When it comes to organizing they do. Commissions and a general assembly will establish what to do on many fronts to be defined, including his performance before Congress and, especially, to the to the polls on Sunday.
