New mass action of the PP in Madrid against the Amnesty law that will be approved tomorrow in Congress, with which Alberto Núñez Feijóo shows that he can maintain the fight in the streets, six months later. If in the first mobilization in September in Plaza Felipe II the PP managed to gather 60,000 people, according to its figures (40,000, according to the Delegation of the Spanish Government in Madrid), yesterday it gathered 70,000, according to its calculations ( 45,000 in those of the Delegation of the Spanish Government).
As then, Feijóo was accompanied by all the regional presidents of the PP, except for the Galician Alfonso Rueda, immersed in the electoral campaign, and former presidents José María Aznar and Mariano Rajoy, but this time, although they were offered to speak , declined the invitation in favor of Feijóo and preferred to be by his side like other citizens. There were also mayors from all over Spain, led by the one from Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, who on Saturday signed a manifesto in favor of the equality of all Spaniards.
The demonstration was filled with flags of Spain and the European Union, to which the PP appeals to stop the amnesty, which meant that there were even posters in English: “No amnesty for terrorism” ( no amnesty for terrorism) or “No democracy without rules of law” (there is no democracy without the rule of law). Next to it, posters of “Amnesty no” and “Sánchez traitor”, although this time there were fewer “Puigdemont in prison”, a slogan that was shouted by the attendees.
The mobilization was exacerbated by the inclusion of terrorism offenses in the law, except for cases of special gravity, and the interlocutors of judge Manuel García-Castellón, who tries to avoid this discrimination and has allowed the personification of two police officers injured in one of the Democratic Tsunami protests in 2019. The magistrate of the National Court received the applause of those gathered in Plaça España when he was summoned by the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, as well as the police when first Martínez-Almeida and then Feijóo mentioned them.
The president of the PP underlined the “indignity” and the “insult” that entails “telling the police that they have not suffered violence or terrorist acts”. And the mayor of Madrid also recalled the visit of Pedro Sánchez, in 2019, to a hospital in Barcelona, ??to the policemen who were seriously injured in the protests over the sentence of the trial.
That is why he asked Sánchez to now “look those same policemen in the eye and tell them that their wounds were of no use, that their sacrifice was useless, that their physical and moral pain was of no use”. “Tell them that you went to the hospital to see them and now you’re abandoning them, that it wasn’t terrorism”, challenged Feijóo.
This new rally against the amnesty “will not be the last”, announced Feijóo, because the PP is ready to take to the streets to defend Spain while Sánchez wants to “continue buying his investment by selling Spain” and “building walls”. And that is why he said to the president of the Spanish Government: “We are here, on this side of the wall, to defend equality, institutions, the principles of the rule of law, justice and the Constitution. We are here, on the other side of the wall, so that there are no walls, which are an ignominy”. “We are here – he stressed – with our dignity intact, no matter how much they market there”.
The people are in the streets, according to Feijóo, to tell Sánchez that “Spain is not silent, that it will not be deceived and that it will not be sold”, that “no Spaniard deserves the condemnation of political, economic and moral misery” and that there is the PP “to rescue Spain democratically” and to “restore equality among all Spaniards and give them back their rights”, affected, according to the PP, by the Amnesty law. The president of the PP was convinced that “this country will not surrender, crimes will be punished; the citizens, respected, and there will be a Government for everyone”. “Then – he assured – Pedro Sánchez will be the past”.
Feijóo believes that the PSOE leader “will go down in history as the worst president of Spanish democracy for his lies; its convenience, which disguises coexistence; his greed disguised as the presidency of the Government, to sell himself, to sell the PSOE and to sell Spain”.
The leader of the PP ended with a string of expletives, shouted by the attendees: “Sánchez was told to choose between being president and the Spanish, and he chose to be president”, he said. “But between Spain and its president, we choose Spain – he continued, with the support of the demonstrators -; between the deceptions and the truth, the truth; between the abuse of power and democracy, democracy; between the amnesty and the Constitution, the Constitution; between privilege and equality, equality; between imposition and freedom, freedom; between humiliation and dignity, dignity; between amnesty and Spain, Spain”, a word that was shouted in the homonymous square just before the Spanish national anthem played.
