Spain’s annual Christmas lottery showered some €56 million ($58 million) on residents of a struggling town where nearly a third of the population is out of work.
Celebrating residents in Pinos Puente in the southern region of Andalucia danced, sang, embraced and sprayed sparkling wine in the streets, images broadcast on public television TVE showed. “The tickets went to people with low incomes, people who really needed it”, Carmen Capilla, a local United Left councillor told AFP by telephone. Much of the winnnings came from tickets sold by Agrupación Local del Partido Comunista, the local branch of the tiny United Left coalition in Pinos Puente, with 258 of its tickets hitting the winning number for the second prize, each paying €125,000. [Read more]. |
- AFP/The Local, Spain’s Christmas lottery showers fortune on “communists” in struggling town, thelocal.es, December 22, 2016
Winners celebrate in Pinos Puente. Photo: IDEAL (@ideal_granada).
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