2023-11-08 23:40:49
by Matteo Castellucci
Half condemned the PP after the scuffles under the Socialists’ headquarters in the capital. Snchez: They won’t silence us
Spain is not divided, written on the signs. But Spain is already divided. The urban guerrilla war in Calle de Ferraz, in the capital, where the Socialist Party is based, was triggered by a minority: right-wing extremist acronyms, anti-vax activists, even – it seems – the ultras who preferred the square to the Atletico Madrid curve . The political fracture: the one on which the country is stuck after the vote on 23 July which gave no one a majority or, rather, one capable of doing without the seats of the Catalan independentists.
For a part of public opinion, the amnesty law was the precursor to secession. For the other half, the text that is being finalized in Brussels, where the former governor of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont is in exile, smacks of national reconciliation; the viaticum to the third mandate of Pedro Snchez. When, on Monday, the agreement with the Catalans of Junts seemed one step away, a Vamos a Ferraz by Vox leader Santiago Abascal thundered on X, then contested because he left before the police charges (promptly reported on social media).
Tuesday evening, the web call was repeated. Orders in small caps: Peacefully. Alongside the green of the ultra-right, louder after the flop at the polls, are the yellow-red flags. The demonstrators doubled: 7 thousand. The PSOE offices had been chosen as the symbolic place of the coup d’état, as that galaxy considers it, by the youth wing of Vox, Revuelta. On Tuesday they became the epicenter of a protest that later derailed.
The meeting is at the nearby Parque del Oeste, an hour before the garrison. Among the promoters, Alvise Prez, a kind of far-right influencer, and Daniel Esteve, leader of Desokupa, a movement specialized in freeing occupied housing. There is also an undergrowth of neo-Nazi acronyms singing the Francoist anthem. An investigation by the PAS documented the drift. At a certain point, the march heads towards Parliament. There will not be an Iberian equivalent of January 6th, but 6 arrests between the barricades and around thirty officers injured.
Snchez visited the headquarters in Madrid, where in the middle of summer he had celebrated the failure of the involutionist bloc on the balcony. The different atmosphere. They have already tried to silence us in the past. Neither then nor today will the intolerant be able to intimidate a party with 144 years of history. The investiture could come next week, he and his allies (which include Sumar’s left and the other Catalan autonomist force, ERC) have set November 27 as the deadline. Otherwise, vote on January 14th.
In this polarization, the leader of the Popolari Alberto Nez Feijo managed to condemn the riots by blaming the opponent. Violence has no place in a democracy, nor impunity. Snchez has no credibility, his reasoning, because he would be thanking other criminals, as the center-right still considers the secessionists of 2017. On Sunday it will be the turn of the PP squares to oppose, in the name of democracy.
While the EU, through Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders, asks for clarification on the amnesty, the crowd returned to Calle de Ferraz for the sixth day. Without incidents, but the identity chorus was heard: Christian Espaa, no Muslim. Divided Spain, above all.
November 8, 2023 (modified November 8, 2023 | 10:54 pm)
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