Thousands of people demonstrated this Sunday in Madrid to demand the calling of early general elections due to the “very serious deterioration of democracy” after the latest cases of “corruption surrounding the president’s entourage” and to ask for his resignation: “Sánchez resignation.”
According to the Government Delegationthere were 25,000 protesters who gathered this Sunday in the Plaza Castilla in Madrid, and 400,000 according to the convener Platform for Constitutional Spainwhich has brought together a hundred civil society associations.
Banners and proclamations against Sánchez, the Government and immigration policy
Hundreds of flags Spain have filled the Plaza Castilla in the capital, where posters and banners have been displayed with texts, most of them, against the president of the government: “PPSOE: Spain does not pay traitors”, “Sánchez, you are a hoax, mud” or “Pedro Sánchez to prison”.
have also been seen banners with proclamations against immigration policy such as “More walls, fewer Moors” or “Return ticket for foreign criminals.”
The most chanted slogans have also been raised around the head of the Executive: “Sánchez resign” or “President, criminal.”
Well-known figures such as the former economy spokesman in the Congress of Deputies by Citizens, Marcos de Quinto, and the former president of the Catalan PP and co-founder of Vox, Alejo Vidal-Quadrashave given their speeches at this demonstration under the motto “For unity, dignity, law and freedom. General elections now!”, and have warned that if we do not react “truly”, the worst is yet to come .
“The change is absolutely unstoppable”
Politicians from the People’s Party like your Deputy Secretary of Territorial Organization, Carmen Fúnezand the GPP Senate spokesperson, Alicia Sánchezand of Voxheaded by their leader, Santiago Abascal.
The former president of the Community of Madrid, Esperanza Aguirrehas also been present.
Noteworthy absence of Feijóo, who has not been able to attend for “personal reasons”
Fúnez, asked why the president of the PP was not present, Alberto Núñez Feijóohas indicated to the media that it was for personal reasons.
The popular deputy secretary has criticized the management of the Government “disastrous”, and has given as an example the “railway chaos” this weekend due to the suspension of trains due to an incident in Madrid.
He has also indicated that “the change is already underway, it is already on the streets and it is absolutely unstoppable.”
Fúnez has pointed out the delicate situation of democracy in Spain in the face of the accusation by those around the President and the State Attorney General
At the same time, he highlighted that Spain is in the most “delicate” moment of democracy because “never before had the wife of the President of the Government, his brother and the state attorney general“.
Fúnez has also criticized Sánchez’s “strategy of entrenchment in the Moncloa to defend itself from an independent justice system that it is afraid of” and has pointed out that the Government does nothing other than “attack the Justice system and persecute the judges who are investigating those around them.”
Abascal has stated that his party will support a motion of censure if it is accompanied by immediate general elections
For his part, Abascal has stated that Vox would be willing to support a motion of censure presented by the Popular Party if it is for an “immediate” call for elections, regardless of who supports it, and “if there is no type of transfer to separatism”.
According to the leader of Vox, “it will be difficult for the president of the Government to fall”, whom he has accused of needing to be in power to defend himself from the action of Justice.
Regarding Sánchez, he has also stated that he makes agreements “with whoever and delivers whatever to avoid being convicted of corruption.”
During his final speech, Alejo Vidal-Quadras He stressed that those present at the demonstration are free citizens willing to defend their nation and he “informed” them that Spain will return to its former self, recover its north and emerge from the hole in which it has been plunged.
“Spain will achieve success and emerge from this gloomy stage that has come to be called sanchismo with renewed forces that will return stability, security, prosperity, as expressed in the motto of this day, unity, dignity, compliance with the law and freedom,” said Vidal-Quadras together with the monument of José Calvo Sotelowhich “remembers a victim of barbarism,” as he noted.
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