After the tension that has been experienced in the streets of Madrid in recent days, the Congress of Deputies will wake up today very protected to host the second investiture debate of the legislature, which will last until tomorrow.
Unlike what happened with the popular Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the socialist Pedro Sánchez will predictably be elected president by an absolute majority and in the first ballot, but it will be after two days of a debate that is expected to be rough in the chamber, given the reaction of PP and Vox to the agreements sealed by the PSOE with Junts and ERC, which include amnesty for those prosecuted by the process in the last ten years.
Faced with the uncertainty that this excited atmosphere can send spirits to the streets, taking into account the daily protests that are registered in front of the socialist headquarters in Ferraz, the National Police will deploy 1,600 officers to protect the Corts, the seat of national sovereignty.
Most of these policemen belong to the police intervention units (UIP), known as anti-riots, and their mission will be to protect the seat of the legislature from possible attempts to hinder the development of the parliamentary session. For this reason, traffic will be cut off on Carrera de San Jerónimo and there will be a police check on all pedestrian access to the surrounding streets.
This device was closed yesterday, 24 hours before the start of the plenary session and after the president of Congress, Francina Armengol, announced on Monday the date of the investiture, coinciding with the registration of the proposed amnesty law by of the PSOE. It was then that pedestrian access controls and restrictions began at the height of Carrer Cedaceros.
In addition, fences were put up in the vicinity so that during the days of today and tomorrow the area would be completely surrounded. However, these past few days there have been isolated protests in the Plaça de les Cortes, with some attempts at camping aborted by the police forces.
The Acting Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, met yesterday with agents of the outstanding units. "You have the support and gratitude of the whole society," he told them, as reported by the department on its official account on the X social network.
Interior sources add that the device will be "similar" to that of other investitures, with the exception that there have now been daily protests for more than ten days in another part of Madrid, on Carrer Ferraz, where the headquarters of the PSOE and where some riots have been registered due to the confrontation between extreme right-wing extremists and the agents of the UIP.
