A state without democracy. Thus the PP has described the political landscape of Spain during “mafia or democracy.” A protest that the Government Delegation has encrypted in 50,000 people and that in the PP have raised more than 100,000. The congregates, mostly dressed with flags in Spain, copied both the central location, the Plaza de España, and the surrounding streets of Gran Vía or Princesa. And they launched proclamations before the crowd, Alberto Núñez Feijóo again demanded from the president the early call for elections, which he has already ruled out on several occasions. “Mr. Sánchez, laugh at democracy. Swap elections,” the popular leader snapped from the lectern, in a speech in which he also launched internal code messages with veiled allusion to the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who marked his own profile during his speech, with slogans much harder than those of his boss. “No one is going to move me from centrality,” Feijóo claimed. “In my party there are different styles and different intensities, but the same goal, to change this government,” he said, accusing Sánchez of having charged the “dignity” and the “decency” of the country. And darts against Vox in turn, who was not present because he considered it an act of party.
The Plaza de España was already up to the stops 15 minutes before they gave 11, time of the call. Then DJ octopuswhich entertains the acts of the PP, punctured the music and bug the public with messages against the PSOE. The chosen song was Veneziaof men G, which starts with the stanza “I am the boss of the mafia“The theme also sounded Ladyof Modjo, whose pronunciation reminds the name of the former socialist militant Leire (Díez). Ten days ago, and after the dissemination of its audios, collecting data against the Central Operating Union (UCO), Fejóo convened the protest, the sixth promoted by the PP in this legislature and the second in number of attendees, according to the data of the Government Delegation. The first was the one organized at the Gate of Sol in November 2023, with 80,000 citizens. The third, in January last year, also in the Plaza de España, with 45,000.
Feijóo appeared on the scene parading along the central catwalk, flanked by Ayuso and the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida. The leader of the PP had had breakfast, in which he opts for the first time openly for a primary model other than Feijóo and where he criticizes his boss’s campaign in the last general elections of 23-J. Ayuso, who played at home this Sunday, was the most acclaimed of popular leaders by the attendees while the three advanced to the head of the protest “Feijóo, no. Ayuso, yes. Motion [de censura] Already ”, he read one of the banners. Despite the request that there were no PP symbols, more than one blue flag of the popular was slipped.
Thus, in the midst of a maximum tension climate and with all the bridges blown between PSOE and PP, Genoa had mobilized during the last week the bases and the territories to move the political pressure of the first opposition party to the street. Eight regional presidents of the Popular Party seconded the protest with the former government presidents José María Aznar and Mariano Rajoy, who were in the central photo next to Feijóo. Most barons have traveled to Madrid two days after facing Sánchez in Barcelona.
The leader of the PP took the stage and appeared from a lectern without symbols, whose registration was the word Democracy In blue on a white background. “Democracy does not defend itself, nor can we delegate it to those who have despised the rule of law, the time has come for its protagonists and its owners to defend it, the responsibility of defending democracy belongs to us all,” said the leader of the PP, causing the public’s fervor, which responded with shouts of “freedom!” “I do not want a anger front because Spain does not need revenge, but Concordia, a revolution. We are going to lead it from the streets, from the polls, I have all honest and free citizens of our country. Lord Sánchez, calls elections, we want them already, nobody voted for him to do this, nor his own. Do it if he is as democratic as he says.”
In his turn, Ayuso made use of his scathing tone, describing Spain explicitly as Maduro’s Venezuela. “The dictatorships enter Sips, little to little, in a harmless way, apparently harmless,” he said. “This is the problem that we live, when popular democracy supplants the liberal enters the dictatorship,” added the applause and songs of “you do vouchers” of the congregates. Before the president of the community, the mayor of Madrid had also drawn the political situation as a Spain whose rights of citizens have been curtailed. “There are no easy times, the mafia the more cornered, more dangerous. When smaller, more damage will want to do,” Martínez Almeida predicted.
“We are already fed up”
While Almeida, Ayuso and Feijoó offered their speeches in the heart of the square, thousands of people still tried to reach the surrounding streets. A lot. The majority, flag of Spain in hand, under an inclement sun – which caused the reddish hats of one of the sales stalls to be exhausted at ten in the morning – and about 30 degrees of temperature, the speeches followed through the huge screens installed in the corners of the square.
One of them, Luis, 57, wrapped in the flag of the Valencian Community, has traveled to Madrid with his wife, Isabel, 55. “We are already fed up with the government, to see if we all throw it together,” he says. The couple censures that the president of the Government Pacte “with everyone” and argues that Spain “is worthless” for Sánchez. Alberto Hernández, 39, also attended the demonstration with his wife and three children. “We have come to support in these times when the president has shown that he believes that this is a farmhouse, who can do what he wants, putting people by finger, helping his wife do business from the government,” he says.
Among these thousands of people, Feijóo has requested early elections and has concluded its intervention with a “Long live democracy, live democracy and live Spain!” and giving way to the national anthem.
