Around 170,000 people in the streets protest in Madrid against the amnesty law

Some 170,000 people, according to the Government delegation, one million according to the organizers, attended this Saturday in Madrid to the massive concentration against the amnesty law presented by the Spanish Socialist Worker’s Party (PSOE), which will benefit those involved in the Catalan independence process.

Convened by civil society organizations, under the motto “Not in my name: neither amnesty nor self-determination”, among the crowd that gathered at noon in the central square of Cybele from the capital were the leader of the conservative People’s Party (PP), Alberto Núñez Feijóoand that of the far-right Vox, Santiago Abascal.

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Núñez Feijóo asked the president of the Government, the socialist Pedro Sanchez“don’t build walls” neither “play with coexistence” and considered that Spain lives “a difficult time for democracy”.

Furthermore, he accused Sánchez of committing “a fraud” and “an accident” with the amnesty law proposal registered in Congress and 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 that has already begun with Sánchez’s pact with “all the enemies of Spain” and urged “keep resisting” through a “coordinated institutional response” in those regions without a “coup majority” -the PP governs in 12 of the 17 Spanish regions, in six of them with the support of Vox, and in addition, in the Senate it has an absolute majority.

Between cries of “traitor“, in reference to the President of the Government and surrounded by flags of Spain and the European Unionprotesters filled the Plaza de Cibeles and his accessions to the rhythm of songs like ‘My dear Spain‘, by Cecilia, ‘Freedom without anger‘, from the Jarcha group; either ‘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 the Congress of Deputies for the socialist party.

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Numerous civil society associations have called on citizens to participate in this call before the “serious crossroads”.

The conveners maintain that the PSOE “has abandoned its duty to defend the constitutional order” and that he also does so in “close alliance with the enemies of the Nation“, with which he is preparing to approve laws, such as the amnesty, “of impossible fit“in 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 that brought together hundreds of thousands of people, which must be added to the daily concentrations that have taken place for 15 days in front of the socialist headquarters of different cities in Spain, highlighting those of Madridwhere most of the time they end with violent incidents between ultra groups and the police.

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