"Today the Spaniards are heard with a single voice from the squares throughout the country. Today Spain is a cry for equality, dignity, justice, coexistence and diversity. In every corner of our territory we say: No to privilege. No to impunity. No to amnesty." Thus reads the manifesto that the Popular Party will read at all the rallies that, in defense of the equality of all Spaniards, it has called for this Sunday at 12:00 p.m. in the 52 provincial capitals.
After a week of protests with violent skirmishes in front of the socialist headquarters on Ferraz Street, the PP hopes to now channel "unprecedented social unrest" with which to erect a "peaceful and forceful" wall against the amnesty law and the rest of "cessions" agreed with the PSOE candidate for the investiture, Pedro Sánchez, with the Catalan independentists.
The manifesto adds that, "on this occasion, the threat is redoubled because it is the President of the Government who, after losing the elections and with the sole intention of perpetuating himself in power, has placed himself at the head of the independence movement that seeks to defeat the State".
Despite the staging of the popular parties, the agreement has not hindered the adhesion of all parties with parliamentary representation, with the exception of PP, Vox and UPN, to the investiture process of the acting president of the Government scheduled for next week.
It was last Monday when the leader of the party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, presented before the National Board of Directors of the PP, the highest body of the party between congresses, the offensive at street level against what he classified as "the greatest democratic setback" of the history of Spain.
All members of the national leadership will be present at the protest events held in the main squares and roads of the country. Feijóo will mobilize at Madrid's Puerta del Sol alongside the president of the Community, Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
The general secretary and spokesperson of the PP in Congress, Cuca Gamarra, will protest in Logroño while the general coordinator, Elías Bendodo, will do the same in Malaga. In his case, the Deputy Secretary of Institutional Affairs, Esteban González Pons, will be in Valencia; the deputy secretary of Territorial Organization, Miguel Tellado, will join the mobilization in A Coruña; while that of Culture and Open Society, Borja Sémper, will join the protest in Madrid.
The PP "is going to mobilize in all the provincial capitals to denounce the drift to which the acting President of the Government is leading Spain with his pacts and agreements with his independence and communist partners," the same sources underline.
In this context, the PP claims to be "the only formation that from a political, social and economic point of view can stop a nonsense that harms all Spaniards."
In addition to opposing the agreements that the socialists have closed in recent days with Sumar, EH Bildu, ERC, BNG, Junts, PNV and Canary Coalition to guarantee Sánchez an absolute majority of 179 votes in his investiture, some regional leaders of the PP like Moreno have demanded that the President of the Government call a meeting of presidents to address their investiture pacts.
The criticism has not only come from popular presidents. Once the agreements were signed, the socialist Emiliano García-Page warned: "If an appeal must be exercised, I will do so. If a battle must be raised, we will do so, but we are not going to go through a re-reading of the Constitution."
The president of Castilla-La Mancha has said that in signing the agreement with Junts he saw "a great need" to govern in the PSOE and to "get out of jail" in those of Carles Puigdemont.
