The Popular Party gives the starting signal for the European elections on June 9 with a mass bath in Madrid. Those from Feijóo have taken to the streets of the capital to ask for a vote on the candidacy of Dolors Montserrat in the midst of an ideological battle against the amnesty and with the shadow of a judicial investigation hovering over Moncloa. What this Sunday was going to be a popular rally against Sánchez’s star rule, has become a kind of electoral rally in which the PP has taken advantage of the attendance of tens of thousands of people at the event organized in the Plaza de la Independencia to ask for the vote for 9-J.
About 80,000 people, according to party data -20,000 according to Government Delegation– They gathered this Sunday at the gates of Retiro Park to receive the PP leadership, led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo. The arrival of the popular leader has been a long time coming. Escorted by the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and the Madrid mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida – as is customary, after five rallies called by the party against the amnesty in recent months -, the president of the PP has sent a very clear message: Next June 9 they go out to win.
Around eleven in the morning, an hour before the official start of the event, the protesters were already parading from the Puerta de Alcalá, almost reaching Cibeles. Just when the sun struck twelve, the camaraderie of the Popular Party was already ready to fire against the coalition Government and the socialists’ star norm that, predictably, will be approved this Thursday, May 30 in the Congress of Deputies. In the surroundings, faces known to Brussels have been seen, such as Rosa Estarás or Antonio López Istúriz, which already made it clear that This Sunday’s event would be key to giving impetus to the campaign for the next European elections.
The PP aspires to bring together the vote of the PSOE and Vox
The president of People’s Partywhose intervention has been one of the most anticipated, has focused his closing speech on asking for ask the constitutionalists for their ballot, 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. Europe is the last retaining wall to the amnesty law, Feijóo’s people know it and, from there, the need to exploit ‘no’ to the norm which is intended to exonerate the independence leaders in the streets to mobilize the vote. The PP leadership has asked the Spanish for their trust in ensuring that the elections of this 9-J become the first step to overturn the amnesty in Europe.
Feijóo has presented the candidacy of Dolors Montserrat as the option for change, a candidacy that represents “ethics, reason and honesty” in Europe. It has been shown optimistic about the outcome of the upcoming European elections, since the Spanish 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,” he 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!”
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 PP has found in the rejection of the amnesty the opportunity to “strengthen the party in the face of 9-J.” The victory in the European elections could serve as an impetus for Alberto Núñez Feijóo to pressure Sánchez’s departure, at a time when his government partners have not stopped showing his weakness in Parliament in recent weeks.
Ayuso attacks Begoña Gómez and throws the gauntlet at Milei
This has also been the message defended this Sunday by Isabel Díaz Ayuso on stage. The president of the Community of Madrid spoke just before the president of the PP and gave one of the most applauded speeches of the day. The Madrid leader has intoned the harshest argument of the morning, directed at 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. 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.
Almeida asks “to shelve the ‘sanchosphere'”
The person in charge of opening this Sunday’s event was the mayor of Madrid. José Luis Martínez-Almeida 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.”
Your speech has come preceded by the intervention of Fernando Savater as a surprise guest, in a meeting in which not a word could be heard from the PP candidate for the European elections Dolors Montserrat. The Catalan has arrived with the participants, accompanied – in addition – by the general secretary Cuca Gamarra. 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.”
At the foot of the stage, mayors, spokespersons and regional presidents such as the Andalusian, Juanma Moreno, or the recently re-elected, Alfonso Rueda. The old guard of the party, led by the former presidents of the Government, have also been in front of the Alcalá gate this Sunday, José María Aznar and Mariano Rajoy.
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