With the shadow of the final approval of the amnesty law hovering over the European campaign, the Popular Party takes to the streets this Sunday with a concentration against the star measure of Pedro Sánchez’s Executive. Those from Feijóo counterattack with a large mass bath in front of the Puerta de Alcalá after months of intense protests against the socialists’ bill. During this afternoon, the sky of Madrid was full of constitutionalist flags with the dome of the ‘popular’ in front, surrounded by tens of thousands of protesters.
This weekend’s event has been presented as a kind of concentration and electoral rally, where Feijóo has been able to show off his popular muscle just before 9-J. The European event has special importance for the PP. Europe is the last retaining wall to prevent the Government from granting amnesty to the independentists. With that slogan, around 80,000 people, according to party figures, -20,000 according to the Government Delegation-, to protest against the amnesty law and show their dissatisfaction with Sánchez’s work at the head of the Council of Ministers.
Escorted by mayors, regional presidents and the old guard of the PP, Feijóo has boasted of party unity in a key event for the next elections in which the popular will measure their forces not only against the PSOE, but with Vox. The objective is to present itself as the only alternative to the left’s proposal with the amnesty as a backdrop.
Feijóo defends the “ethics, reason and honesty” of Dolors Monserrat
Therefore, the party leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo has focused his speech on asking those Spanish constitutionalists to vote, also to those who at the time voted for Pedro Sánchez’s PSOE or Vox, who want to stop the amnesty law in the European Parliament. The PP leadership has asked the Spaniards to cast their ballot in their favor to ensure that the elections of this 9-J become the first step to overturn the amnesty in Europe.
Feijóo has presented the candidacy of Dolors Monserrat as the option for change, a candidacy that represents “ethics, reason and honesty” in Europe. The president of the PP has thanked the Catalan for her work in Brussels and her “strength” to be crowned on June 9 as the alternative to a “selfish” Government. Surrounded by cries of “Sánchez resign” and “no amnesty”, the Galician has addressed the President of the Government to demand that he withdraw the amnesty law and “stop all this decadence” which promises to bring Carles Puigdemont back to the streets of Catalonia.
The popular has shown optimistic about the outcome of the upcoming elections European elections, since the Spanish people are already “fed up with the selfishness of a Government that despises us and changes all of us Spaniards for seven votes”. “We want a Spain of free, equal citizens with a future. If we want Europe to have what we defend here today, we will have to vote for it,” she stated.
Likewise, the leader of the PP has criticized not only Sánchez’s work at the head of the Moncloa, but that of the rest of his Council of Ministers. Especially, has attacked the leadership of the vice president, María Jesús Montero, for “being applauded by Hamas”. A message that has resonated with beeps emitted in unison by a large part of the attendees after hearing the mention of the number two of the PSOE, and that has been heard again when Feijóo has mentioned “those ministers who say that Sánchez is the master.”
“Sánchez is not the master, he is a public servant. Spain has no master!”
With the vote against the amnesty as the culmination, Feijóo finished his speech encouraging those gathered this Sunday in the Plaza de la Independencia in Madrid to shout yes to “equality, independence, justice, freedom of information, to freedom of expression, to dignity, to democracy and to Spain”.
Almeida asks to shelve the ‘sanchosphere’
The person in charge of kicking off the massive event that took place this Sunday was José Luis Martínez-Almedia. A moment long awaited by the early risers who have begun to gather at the doors of Retiro Park since early in the morning. With a brusque and defiant tone, the mayor of Madrid addressed the President of the Government. A speech addressed “to the candidate who lost the elections” and who He managed to reach Moncloa after agreeing on an amnesty with the Catalan nationalists.
The Madrid leader has defended the popular candidacy for the next European elections as the “only possible way to shelve the ‘sanchosphere'”. A message repeated by all those involved who understand that the PP is the only political option that “believes in the European Union and Europeans.” This is how Martínez-Almeida presented himself this afternoon, too, in front of those who voted for Sánchez and who “were deceived” for the political survival of the socialist candidate.
Fernando Savater as surprise guest
“Spanish society is the one that says no to amnesty and yes to equality”, this was the motto defended by the leader of the Popular Party, just before Fernando Savater went on stage where he was greatly applauded.
The philosopher, who is not a member of the party but has agreed to close the lists in the European elections as an independent, defended this Sunday voting for the PP as the way to “putting Pedro Sánchez on the ropes.”
“Why are we going to be able to give amnesty to some criminals… There are parties that present themselves to destroy Spain. If the unity of Spain is not defended first, the unity of Europe will not be defended.”
Savater’s intervention has been a surprise for the attendees who, on the other hand, They have not been able to hear a word from the PP candidate for the European elections. The one that did intervene this afternoon and very loudly was Isabel Diaz Ayuso. The president of the Community of Madrid has given the most cheered speech that has been seen this Sunday on the stage displayed by the Popular Party in front of the Puerta de Alcalá.
The Madrid leader has focused her intervention on directly attack Pedro Sánchez and “the inappropriate activities of his wife as the wife of the President of the Government“. A special mention preceded by a full-fledged nod to the Argentine president, Javier Milei, who in this same space – in the center of Madrid – addressed Begoña Gómez as the “corrupt” wife of the socialist leader.
Ayuso’s intervention and Milei’s memory in the shadows
The regional president has defended that the capital of Spain is a meeting point between Spaniards, as well as a place of respect and tolerance, even with “Palestinians, Jews and Israelis.” For this reason, Ayuso has invited constitutionalists to celebrate “democracy” in Madrid: “This is everyone’s house, damn it!”.
Likewise, he has stated in front of the microphones that the socialist leader is trying to divide Spain and the Judiciary with an amnesty law that represents the “indignity of one of the most important nations in the world.” “They have sold us that this law was necessary for coexistence and progress, when they have needed months to fit it with Vaseline in the Congress of Deputies,” Ayuso summarized. In front of around 80,000 people, according to the PP, the regional president shouted louder than ever “I like fruit”, a direct message against Pedro Sánchez, whom he has criticized for his position on the conflict in Gaza. “What a coincidence that all totalitarianisms are anti-Semitic”, he declared.
Finally, the Madrid leader has raised the spirits of the entire Plaza de la Independencia, a grateful public that has given thunderous applause to the popular leader. Ayuso has ended up asking for the vote for Dolors Monserrat. “June 9 is the opportunity to strengthen the Popular Party.”
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