2023-11-07 00:11:04
New concentrations in different cities of the country. One of them was held on Ferraz Street in Madrid, near the PSOE headquarters, against the pacts of the socialists and the independence parties, which include the amnesty law.
“Pedro Sánchez to prison”, “Let Txapote vote for you”, “Puigdemont to prison”, “Freedom” or “Spain is not for sale” are some of the slogans that the attendees, a few hundred people, have chanted. Accompanied by several banners with “The Spaniards have the right and the duty to defend Spain” or “Pedro Sánchez traitor”, there are also Spanish flags and caceroladas on Ferraz Street. Posters that read “No Amnesty” and “Sánchez traitor” have also been distributed, also carrying loudspeakers and whistles.
As last Friday and Saturday, the National Police has cordoned off the area, cutting off Ferraz Street to guarantee security. The concentration has collapsed the intersection between Ferraz Street and Calle del Marqués de Urquijo. The Government Delegation in Madrid has put the number of protesters present at the demonstration at 3,800.
Concentrations this Monday in front of the PSOE headquarters | EFE
The Revuelta platform, an organization linked to the student association Plataforma 711 that defends “Christian values” and “the reconquest” was the one who called the rally.
It is the third concentration after several hundred citizens gathered for the second day last Saturday, including the former Madrid president Esperanza Aguirre, in the same area.
Three arrested in the protest in Ferraz
Although a group has begun to leave the rally towards Princesa Street, the demonstration has ended with altercations. Tension between protesters and the police has increased after a group, some hooded and wearing masks, attempted to break the police cordon. Protesters have lit flares and firecrackers and thrown bottles at police officers. Some young people have also overturned containers and electric scooters from the road.
Riot officers have cleared it with rubber ball launchers and smoke bombs. Some residents of the area have complained about the scandal. The concentration has left three people arrested for disobedience and attacks against authority.
Among those attending was the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, who confirmed his attendance at the protest late in the afternoon. Also in the front row of the rally was the current vice president of Castilla y León, Juan García-Gallardo, and other Vox leaders. “Let’s go to Ferraz,” Abascal wrote on social networks.
The acting president of the Government and leader of the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, has sent his support to the militancy after the protests held this Monday in front of numerous party headquarters, ensuring that “no one will be able to intimidate the PSOE.” “All my love and support for the socialist militancy that is suffering from the harassment of reactionaries in people’s homes. Attacking the PSOE headquarters is attacking democracy and all those who believe in it. But more than 140 years of history They remind us that no one will ever be able to intimidate the PSOE,” he wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Concentrations in Barcelona, Seville or Valladolid
Other concentrations have run parallel to those in Barcelona, Valencia, Badajoz, Seville, Valencia, El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz), Oviedo, Salamanca, Tarragona, Zaragoza and Valladolid, all in front of the PSOE headquarters.
In Barcelona, around 500 people have also gathered, dressed in Spanish flags and carrying banners that read “Amnesty is not justice.” The protest ended without incident.
More than a thousand people have gathered in front of the headquarters of the PSOE of Andalusia in Seville. At the rally, spread on social networks, posters with slogans such as “Socialist Party, whoremonger and coup plotter” were carried. The PSOE-A has warned the president of the Andalusian PP and the Junta, Juanma Moreno, that he will be “responsible” for what may happen to people or property during the protests.
Several hundred people have gathered in Zaragoza in front of the PSOE headquarters. Convened by social networks, attendees gathered starting at 8:00 p.m. on Conde Aranda Street. “Sánchez with coup plotters and pro-ETA members: NO!!”, “Traitor”, “Whoring and coup plotting Socialist Party”, “General Strike” and “Not in my name” could be read on the banners.
In Granada, about 1,800 people according to the Local Police have taken to the streets to protest in a mobilization that has toured the city center. The protesters began a rally at the Fuente de las Batallas that had not been communicated to the Government Subdelegation and advanced through the center of Granada without any incidents being reported.
Several hundred people have gathered in Valencia in front of the PSOE headquarters. The event was led by a large Spanish flag behind which the participants stood. “We are not fachas, we are Spanish”, “València will be the tomb of Sanchismo” or “May Txapote vote for you” have been some of the proclamations.
Around half a thousand people have gathered in Valladolid against “the purchase of votes” that the socialists are carrying out with “criminal impunity.” The sidewalk on Santa Lucía Street has been filled with protesters amidst a large police presence since 8:00 p.m.
Hundreds of people have also gathered this afternoon in front of the headquarters of the PSOE of the Canary Islands in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria to express their rejection of the amnesty law. The PSOE headquarters on Juan XXIII Avenue, which suffered vandalism this weekend, has been protected by members of the National Police.
Feijóo calls for rallies against the amnesty
The leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has called for rallies for next Sunday in the provincial capitals of Spain against Pedro Sánchez’s pacts. This Sunday, at 12:00 p.m., the party will gather throughout the country, an initiative that toughens the response to what they consider an “attack on the rule of law” and “the greatest democratic setback in our history.”
“First, we are going to continue, second, they are not going to silence us, third, they are not going to silence us and fourth, they are not going to stop us,” Feijóo stressed in his speech before the National Board of Directors without referring to the protests held in Ferraz.
Junts and PSOE finalize an agreement
Junts and PSOE continued negotiations this Monday from Brussels in search of an agreement to unblock the investiture of Pedro Sánchez. In these latest negotiations they continue with the amnesty at the center of the issue. After negotiations resumed this weekend, following the cooling of contacts last Friday, the Junts leadership met this morning at the Brussels Press Club, just 300 meters from the Sofitel Hotel, where they were located. the number three of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán.
The general secretary of Junts, Jordi Turull, and the party’s president in Parliament, Albert Batet, arrived in Brussels yesterday to meet with Carles Puigdemont, who is leading the negotiations on behalf of the pro-independence party. On behalf of the PSOE, its number three, Santos Cerdán, arrived in Brussels after having left the city last Friday, when negotiations with Junts got stuck. Negotiations between both parties remain stuck in “technical issues” to refine the wording of an amnesty law.
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