Around 4,000 people, according to provisional data from the Government Delegation in Madrid - much higher than yesterday and in recent days when some 1,200 people gathered - are participating in the fourteenth concentration next to the PSOE headquarters on Madrid's Calle de Ferraz, which coincides with the day in which Pedro Sánchez has been re-elected president of the Government.
This Thursday's protest began before 8:00 p.m. without incident, although tension has grown as time has passed with flares and other objects being thrown at the agents, who have given warnings to the participants, and several journalists.
Among those gathered was the leader of Vox Javier Ortega Smith, cheered with shouts of "Ortega, Ortega", and who at times stood in the front rows.
As on previous nights, as the rally goes on, the most radical, some of them masked, take positions in the front rows. At night, Spanish flags were seen again, some with the constitutional shield cut out, Franco's flags, Burgundian crosses and even a banner of the Hitler Youth; In addition, they have burned several esteladas, symbols of the Catalan independence movement.
Those gathered have sung the usual chants, such as "Ferraz must be burned" or "investiture, coup and dictatorship", they have sung the anthem of the blue division and have uttered insults against Pedro Sánchez, for whom some have even asked for "the guillotine", "the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, and the Police, as well as against the journalists who have covered the protest.
On this occasion, a banner has been displayed with the codes of police officers who have appeared on various Telegram channels as perpetrators of alleged "police abuses" or who have posed as protesters "to break up the protests" according to their bearers.
It was also possible to see a coffin made of cardboard that read "RIP democracy" and another banner with the phrase "PSOE: traitors, thieves, civil war, fraudsters. Pedro Sánchez traitor."
