Minutes before the investiture debate of candidate Pedro Sánchez began, several hundred people gathered on the outskirts of the Congress of Deputies, armored with a strong police device similar to that of a high-risk soccer match. At noon there were about fifty people in the Carrera de San Jerónimo and at least 150 in the Plaza de Neptuno. The day before, on the twelfth day of the rally at dusk in Ferraz, some protesters carried inflatable dolls as ministers. These are some slogans written on banners and flags in the protests near Congress: