2023-11-18 08:47:44
Madrid (EFE).- Some 170,000 people – according to data from the Government Delegation – participated this Saturday in Madrid’s Plaza de Cibeles in the protest rally once morest the amnesty law organized by civil society organizations.
The organizers, for their part, raise the participation figure to one million people.
Hundreds of protesters once morest the amnesty gather in front of Moncloa and block the highway
After the rally, several hundred protesters once morest the amnesty and the investiture of Pedro Sánchez gathered in front of the Moncloa Palace and along the way they occupied some lanes of the A-6 entering the capital, while the police cut off some of the access roads to the area.
As reported by the City Council’s Traffic Management Center, as a result of the presence of protesters, a section of this road near Plaza de Moncloa has been cut off.
A group of protesters once morest the amnesty and the investiture of Pedro Sánchez heads towards the Moncloa Palace. EFE
The protesters have waved Spanish flags shouting “Sánchez, you are a coward” or “don’t hit me, my name is Mohamed”, and have circulated among the cars that were traveling on the road.
A police barrier has prevented the protesters from passing before Seneca Avenue, when they pass the Victory Arch from Princess Street; Some of them have sat in front of the riot police.
The General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) has reported on social networks that the entrance to the A6, in Puerta del Hierro, is closed, and there are delays of more than 3 kilometers.
Protesters in front of national police officers in the vicinity of the PSOE headquarters on Madrid’s Ferraz street. EFE/ Daniel González
Some of the protesters have also moved towards Ferraz Street, where the federal headquarters of the PSOE is located.
After finishing the interventions, a large group of people headed towards Ferraz, passing through Gran Vía and Princesa Street.
“Not in my name: neither amnesty nor self-determination”
Under the slogan “Not in my name: neither amnesty nor self-determination”, the rally began following 12:00 noon amid shouts of “Pedro Sánchez to prison”, “He is not a president, he is a criminal” or “Sánchez traitor and liar.”
Numerous civil society associations have called on citizens to participate in this call given the “serious crossroads” in which Spain finds itself, according to the Alternative and Freedom Forum.
This association maintains that the PSOE “has abandoned its duty to defend the constitutional order” and that it does so, furthermore, 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.”
Thousands of people in the demonstration called this Saturday by a hundred civil society organizations once morest the amnesty in the Plaza de Cibeles, in Madrid. EFE/ Fernando Alvarado
Feijóo asks the Government to “not build walls”
At the beginning of the march, the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, asked the new Government of Pedro Sánchez “not to build walls” and “not to play with coexistence.”
In statements to journalists, Feijóo called for a return to “common sense, the Constitution, the division of powers and respect for judicial independence.”
“It is one thing to have the power and another to be right, one thing is to have obtained enough deputies, but they know that they do not have the votes to do what they are doing,” he added.
According to the president of the PP, “we are in a complicated moment for democracy” and he has accused Sánchez of committing “a fraud” and “an outrage” with the amnesty law proposal registered in Congress and which has allowed him to be sworn in. President of the goverment.
The president of the Community of Madrid Isabel Díaz Ayuso (c), the president of the Popular Party Alberto Núñez Feijóo (d) and the mayor of Madrid José Luis Martínez-Almeida (l-below) at the demonstration called this Saturday by a hundred organizations of civil society once morest the amnesty. EFE/ Borja Sánchez-trillo
Abascal: The amnesty is the “consummation” of a coup d’état
For his part, the president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has denounced that the amnesty law agreed between PSOE, ERC and Junts is the “consummation” of a coup d’état that, according to the far-right leader, has already begun with the pact. of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, with “all the enemies of Spain.”
“Given this, we cannot consider the battle lost,” Abascal assured this Saturday before the media, at the rally once morest the amnesty law.
The Vox leader has urged to “continue resisting” through a “coordinated institutional response” in those regions without a “coup majority,” as well as in the Senate.
In this sense, he has announced that he has requested a meeting with the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to coordinate this institutional response, although he has admitted differences of opinion.
The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal (i) greets attendees at the demonstration once morest the amnesty called this Saturday in Madrid. EFE/ Juanjo Martin
“Vox is going to do everything it must do to defend legality in Spain, national unity and stop this coup,” he indicated.
Ayuso warns of “irreversible damage” for Spain
Meanwhile, the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has warned of the “irreversible damage” that is being generated in Spain with the creation of two sides and the accusation of judges, and has accused the Government of exercising an “abuse intolerable power.”
Before participating in the rally, Ayuso pointed out that “the damage that is being generated is irreversible, that is why we are here, to defend the Spain of all, which we have given each other and denounce what is intended to be done from “La Moncloa, with an intolerable abuse of power.”
He has also warned of the “enormous” economic and business damage that the political situation can cause and has called for “this nonsense” to stop.
The president of the PP and the Regional Government of Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, has criticized that the President of the Government starts the legislature by “breaking bridges with those who are not his partners.” “Sánchez has sold out to the radicals and has made unacceptable concessions to the separatist partners who are committed to breaking the equality of all Spaniards,” he denounced.
López criticizes the “thunderous silence” of the PP in the face of “attitudes close to fascism”
The PSOE spokesperson in Congress, Patxi López, has denounced the “thunderous silence” that he “hears” from the PP in the face of slogans and “violent attitudes close to fascism” that have been heard in the protests called with the “excuse of go once morest the amnesty.”
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