The General Council presented the temporary exhibition today at noon “We need all of us”an exhibition that collects the testimony of the women who at the end of the sixties fought to obtain the right to vote, recognized in 1970, and subsequently the right to eligibility, in 1973.
The exhibition pays tribute to the determination of women like Joaquima Calvó, Elidà Amigó and Angelina Masamong many others, who were pioneers in demanding participation female politics in Andorra.
The exhibition includes photographs provided by the National Archive of Andorra of the first votes of women in the elections to General Council of December 14, 1971. There is also an old urn on display Municipality of Andorra la Vellamade of wood and iron, which received some of the first votes of Andorran women.
The exhibition is complemented by the work “We need all of us”of Joana Bayguala cotton fabric embroidered with gold thread that reproduces the signatures of the suffragettes. In total, there are 378 signatures that on May 15, 1968 they accompanied the application registered in General Council to request “the faculty to exercise the rights that come with full Andorran citizenship”.
The sample has been installed in Lost Steps of the General Council and can be visited together with the guided tours a House of the Valley that include the route through the new hemicycle.
