Tens of thousands of people—170,000, according to the Government Delegation; almost a million according to the organization - have flooded Madrid's Plaza de Cibeles in protest against the pacts of the PSOE with the independence parties that have elevated Pedro Sánchez to the Presidency of the Government. This Saturday it was the turn of the civil associations, who supported by the Popular Party and Vox, have taken the center of the capital under the motto 'Not in my name: neither amnesty, nor self-determination, for freedom, unity and equality!'.
They were summoned at noon this Saturday by a conglomerate of more than one hundred associations - some religious, others against the current political system and also faithful defenders of the Transition - but the Plaza de Cibeles began to fill up an hour before the start of the call. Groups of protesters who have chanted the classics of these weeks of protests: from "Puigdemont to prison" to "Son of a bitch Pedro Sánchez", passing through the more current "I like fruit", a phrase supposedly uttered by the Madrid president, Isabel. Díaz Ayuso, at the investiture session of Pedro Sánchez. Mythical songs from the Transition have been played there such as 'Mediterráneo' by Joan Manuel Serrat, 'Libre' Nino Bravo, 'Libertad sin ira', 'Esta España mia' by Cecilia or 'Que viva España' by Manolo Escobar.
This protest was not called, like last Sunday, by the Popular Party, but its top leaders have been present. The leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo, supported by territorial barons and part of the parliamentary group, has demanded that Pedro Sánchez "not raise walls" between Spaniards and, although he has warned that "the alarms of democracy are on", he has asked the citizens who are not "afraid" because Spain is a democratic system. Furthermore, he has warned that his party will not stop "denouncing" the "abuses" of the PSOE and its pro-independence partners.
The leader of the PP, who heard shouts of "president, president" as he approached the core of the protest, wanted to leave the space that today corresponds to civil organizations, with which he shares "the desire to return to coexistence, to return to equality, to return to the rule of law and to denounce any type of fraud, lies and humiliation".
The president of the Popular Party has not shared a photograph with the leader of the far right, Santiago Abascal, despite the fact that the latter has had words for the former. As confirmed, the president of Vox has asked Feijóo for a meeting to "articulate a joint response and analyze the possibilities that the Senate has to stop the amnesty law", which this Monday was registered alone by the socialist group in Congress of the Deputies.
Abascal, in his usual belligerent tone, has assured that "the consummation of the coup that has already begun with Pedro Sánchez's pact with all the enemies of Spain" and this materializes, in his opinion, in the approval of the law of amnesty." For this reason, the ultra leader has encouraged not to give up "the battle for lost." "We must continue resisting with sustained social mobilization, give a coordinated institutional response in the regions where there is no coup majority, in the Senate and communicate to all our international allies what is happening in Spain with the attack on the independence of powers, the equality of Spaniards and the Constitution.”
Among the conveners are Foro Libertad y Alternativa, Unión 78, Foro España Cívica, Cataluña Suma, Pie en Pared, S'ha Finish!, NEOS, Association for Tolerance, Catalan Civic Coexistence, From Spanish to Spanish for the Constitution, OLE ( Another Electoral Law), Resiste España, Nuevo Espíritu de Ermua and a hundred civic organizations that already promoted another rally in Cibeles on January 21 under the motto 'For Spain, Democracy and the Constitution'.
During the event, there were brief interventions by Portuguese MEP Paulo Rangel, professor Félix Ovejero, writers Andrés Trapiello, Conchita Martín and Albert Boadella, Venezuelan journalist Miguel Henrique Otero and the president of S'ha Acabat!, Júlia Calvet. The last speech is given by the philosopher Fernando Savater.
The bulk of the concentration has dissolved after the reading of a manifesto in which it has warned of a "deconstitutive" process based on a "corrupt" investiture of Pedro Sánchez and which, in addition to the amnesty, contemplates a referendum. Among others, the philosopher Fernando Savater participated, who was in charge of closing the event.
