While the internal uncertainty about the investiture of Pedro Sánchez grows, without an agreement with Carles Puigdemont yet in sight, the socialists have found an escape valve to make a fuss in the far-right protests that take place every night in front of the headquarters of the PSOE in Ferraz and other socialist houses throughout Spain.
"More than mobilisations, these are attacks on the headquarters of the political parties", warned yesterday the spokeswoman for the Spanish Government, the socialist Isabel Rodríguez. "Attack against political parties is an attack against democracy", he warned.
And he immediately directed the focus on the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, whom he reprimanded for not condemning, "outright", these attacks on the headquarters of the PSOE or rejecting "the slogans and symbols" that the ultras wield in these protests "We ask Feijóo to accept once and for all the rules of democracy and the result of the elections", Rodríguez insisted.
"It is worrisome that the far-right calls for these kinds of violent demonstrations, but it is almost more worrisome when the PP and its provisional leader justify them", reprimanded Minister Félix Bolaños in turn, referring to Feijóo.
The minister spokeswoman, like the minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, defended in any case the "proportionality" of the police action against these protests. "They do not obey any political criteria, but the operational criteria of the chain of command", assured Marlaska. And he warned that no party can justify "absolutely despicable violent actions in any democracy", with reference to the ultra protests.
In the prevention of major problems, the secretary of organization of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán, addressed the socialist federations yesterday to suspend all activities at their headquarters in the afternoon. "In view of the calls for rallies in front of the headquarters of the PSOE that are happening these days, and because of the aggressive spirit of their calls", Cerdán justified, to guarantee the safety of the leaders and their employees.
The PP did not condemn the demonstrations that have been held for a few days in front of the PSOE headquarters in Calle Ferraz, but it did distance itself when it assured that, "despite the lies of the Spanish Government, the PP has not called no rally in Ferraz", and has called his own, which have always proceeded, party sources underline, "peacefully and in an exemplary manner". There is no sentence to be demanded by the PSOE, which has, at other times, staged the same protests as now in Ferraz.
What the popular people do criticize is the action of the Interior Commands, because they treat the demonstrators "as if they were CDR", who now want to be amnestied, and they remember the riots that occurred in other kinds of demonstrations, such as those of We can surround the Congress, when the PSOE "went to our headquarters to insult us", when Bildu went to the headquarters of the PP "to attack them" or when the pro-independence parties "used the street to create riots". Practices that the PP rejects and reaffirms: "We find no inspiration in any of these". But he will not stop taking to the streets to protest.
The PP recalls that, as a party, it has called rallies against the amnesty in Santiago de Compostela, Madrid, Toledo, Malaga and Valencia. And "all of them were peaceful and developed in an exemplary way", this is how he distances himself from those called in front of Ferraz. That is why they will continue to demonstrate, like on Sunday, with rallies in all the provincial capitals. For the PP, the way to protest "against the unworthy negotiations of the PSOE is to do it in such a way that Sánchez does not manage to divert attention from his indecency", as, in his opinion, he intends by putting the focus on these protests about his performance.
That is why they reaffirm that they will lead "the social and institutional response to the surrender of our country with the same strategy that has brought tens of thousands of people to the streets in calls organized by the PP".
Along these lines, the deputy secretary of the PP Borja Sémper emphasized that they will be added to the demonstrations called by civil society so that citizens can express themselves in an "orderly, calm and forceful" manner, to "respond democratically to the attack driven by the Executive", which is how all the mobilizations called by the PP have been held, with which it wants to channel "the public indignation that is growing as it becomes known what Sánchez is doing and what he intends to carry out ".
