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Vicky Rosell, Carla Antonelli, Sitapha Savané and the president of the Cabildo, Antonio Morales, cooked with chefs Marcos Tavío and Richard Díaz Aguilar, while analyzing democracy in everyday language

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 12/2/2022.- The Cabildo de Gran Canaria, through the Citizen Participation Directorate, has held the event Cooking Democracy, which took place on the morning of Friday, December 2 at the Central Market of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, where a kitchen space was set up in which renowned chefs on the island cooked alongside four popular faces, while they talked about democracy and citizen participation, in plain language before an audience loaded with their shopping bags. buy who was interested in impromptu conversations on stage. The act was led by the actress and comedian, Yanely Hernández.

Carla Antonelli, activist and the first trans woman to be a deputy in the Spanish State, was the first kitchen assistant in the morning. Together with chef Marcos Tavío, she prepared some textured peas with goat butter and black pig jowls. "We are not going to allow our freedom to be taken from us again", she declared while she was cooking the vegetables. On the Trans Law, she appreciated that "it is cooking too slowly." And she also recognized that "there are people who are Democrats only when their own win and that is not democracy," she said.

The president of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, Antonio Morales, participated in the preparation of a sweet Canarian pork and boiled mojo, together with chef Richard Díaz Aguilar. Morales affirmed that "we are experiencing a contradiction between democracy and autocracy." He considered that it is necessary to restore confidence in democracy and promote political closeness. In the same way, he cited the need to open spaces for the direct participation of citizens in politics, giving as an example the recent purchase of Cuasquías, which will become a meeting place for social entities.

Sitapha Savané, former basketball player and president of the Gran Canaria Basketball Club, cooked a gofio scalded with indigenous broth served with chickpea mojo and cured bonito together with Marcos Tavío. He was of the opinion that democratic advances are valued more outside than inside. On tolerance, he stressed that "we have to work to include all forms of life." Savané equated the importance of teamwork in sports with what is necessary in all areas of democracy.

Vicky Rosell, magistrate and government delegate against Gender Violence, closed the culinary and participatory preparation, preparing a tomato salad with muddy sea bass with Richard Díaz Aguilar. "Men are of great importance in preventing gender violence, and that is what the latest government campaign reflects," she said. In this way, she appealed to co-responsibility as a way of collaborating to stop sexist violence.

The event brought together citizens who tasted the four dishes prepared by the chefs and the audience. It is the first edition of Cocinando Democracia, an initiative in which together with the Cabildo, Gran Canaria Me Gusta, INFECAR and the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Chamber of Commerce collaborated.

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