2023-11-18 19:23:37
Thousands of people marched again this Saturday in Madrid in a new mass rally against the amnesty law presented by the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), which will benefit those involved in the Catalan independence process.
Convened under the motto “Not in my name: neither amnesty nor self-determination”, among the crowd – some 170,000 people according to official calculations, one million according to the organizers – that gathered at midday in the central Plaza de Cibeles in the Spanish capital were the leaders of the conservative Popular Party (PP), Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and the far-right Vox, Santiago Abascal.
Núñez Feijóo asked the President of the Government, the socialist Pedro Sánchez, “not to build walls” or “play with coexistence” and considered that Spain lives “a difficult moment for democracy” .
The head of the PP He also accused Sánchez of committing “a fraud” and “an outrage” with the amnesty law proposal registered in Congress, which has allowed him to be sworn in as president of the Government.
For his part, Abascal denounced that the amnesty law is the “consummation” of a coup d’état which has already begun with Sánchez’s pact with “all the enemies of Spain” and urged them to “continue resisting” through a “coordinated institutional response.”
The Plaza de Cibeles, filled with protesters. Photo: AP/Alicia León.
Amid shouts of “traitor”, in reference to the President of the Government and surrounded by flags of Spain and the European Union, the protesters filled the Plaza de Cibeles and its entrances to the rhythm of songs such as ‘My dear Spain’, by Cecilia, ‘ Freedom without anger’, by the group Jarcha; or ‘Mediterranean’, by Joan Manuel Serrat.
The flags of Spain could be bought in the same square for 5 euros for the small one and 10 for the largest.
The demonstration takes place after Sánchez was sworn in as president of the Government this week with the votes of the Catalan independence parties, which made amnesty a condition for support, and when the bill on said matter was already registered in Congress. of the Deputies for the socialist party.
Numerous civil society associations had called on citizens to participate in this call in the face of the “serious crossroads.”
The leader of the PP, Alberto Nunez Feijoo, was at the demonstration along with the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Diaz Ayuso. Photo: Archyde.com/Susana Vera.
Those calling for the mobilization maintain that the PSOE “has abandoned its duty to defend the constitutional order” and that it does so in “close alliance with the enemies of the Nation”, with whom it is preparing to approve laws, such as the amnesty. , “impossibly fitting” into the Constitution “in exchange for staying in power.”
This protest joins the one that the PP already called last Sunday in the main cities of Spain and which brought together hundreds of thousands of people.
And to that we must add the daily rallies that have been taking place for 15 days in front of the socialist headquarters in different cities in Spain -especially those in Madrid-, and which most of the time end with violent incidents between ultra groups and the police. .
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