Thousands of people protest against the amnesty at a Feijóo event in Madrid

An “unbearable humiliation.” This is what the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, considers the existence of an international verifier to monitor the pact between the Government and the PSOE and the Catalan independentists, especially Junts and Carles Puigdemont. A humiliation that the Spanish “We are not going to accept,” said the popular leader, who stressed that “we are not going to accept the opacity with which Sánchez meets clandestinely, to negotiate democracy and the dignity of the Spanish people.” And that’s why he says, “not in our name.”

The third public event of the PP against the amnesty, which the PP estimates at 15,000 people and the Government Delegation at 8,000, was well attended, although not as massive as the previous ones, in the first place because it was conceived not as a demonstration. but as an act of the PP in defense of the Constitution, on the eve of its 45th anniversary, although yesterday’s celebration of the first meeting with an international verifier once again focused the event on the negotiations between the PSOE and Junts.

Despite being a strictly PP event, and just as happened at the Puerta del Sol rally, almost a month ago, the president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, joined the call, along with a large group of members of his party, which after the PP event has called on its followers to go to the PSOE headquarters, on Ferraz street, something that the PP does not do, as it did when the concentration took place in Puerta del Sol.

The Temple of Debod, the place chosen this time by the PP for its act against the amnesty and the Defense of the Constitution, is located 700 meters away, but the PP stressed, as then, that the PP call begins and ends in the Temple of Debod, where the popular have held rallies. In fact, Feijóo himself ended his intervention by emphasizing “we finish here”, a statement that he uttered twice, aware as he was that Vox had called for him to continue to Ferraz.

An event that was convened in Madrid was attended by the entire leadership of the PP, starting with its general secretary, its deputy secretaries and its spokespersons in Congress, in the Senate and in the European Parliament, in addition to many of the barons of the PP, like Juanma Moreno (Andalusia); Jorge Azcón (Aragón), Fernando López Miras (Murcia) María Guardiola (Extremadura), or the president of the PP of Castilla-La Mancha, Francisco Núñez, or the spokesperson of the PP in Barcelona City Council, Daniel Sirera.

The president of the PP based his opposition to the amnesty and the negotiations between PSOE and Junts, on the vindication of “the principles and values ??of the Constitution” and to “defend the truth from lies, the equality of privilege, the democracy of the “power grab”, and it will do so, he warned, in the street, with the announcement that “there will be many more”; in Parliament and “before Justice”, where they will take each of the issues that in the opinion of the popular consider that they attack equality and democracy in Spain.

He will do it, Feijóo said, although “they want us with our hands up while we witness the robbery with the equality of the Spaniards”, and he will do it, although “they want us silent while they speak in Geneva.” “They want us,” the popular leader insisted, “with our hands up and submissive, like they do before the independentists.”

They will continue on the streets, with more mobilizations “because we are not going to give in to their deceptions, we are not going to whitewash their alliances, we are not going to normalize the scandals” and “the more lies they tell, the more truths they will have to hear.”

The president of the PP stressed that “we are not going to give him one”, and although he made it clear that “I am not going to question the legitimacy of the Government”, he is going to combat “its unreason, its amorality and its shamelessness”, because “they are the shame of a country from which they are not going to take away its dignity”.

And Feijóo feels that the Government represents for Spain “a national shame and an international embarrassment”, which rises to the highest level with the figure of the international mediator, which it was learned yesterday that the Salvadoran diplomat Francisco Galindo will play. “It is an embarrassment that there is foreign mediation to speak between compatriots”, who have always known how to speak, as those who approved the Constitution did 45 years ago, “who signed the civil peace between right, left and nationalists”, who “established ties and bridges, and not like today, when the Government wants to build walls. They want to confront us again”, and the PP will work so that this does not happen, he said.

Alberto Núñez Feijóo showed his displeasure that “a Salvadoran supposedly an expert in negotiations with terrorists and Latin American guerrillas” is going to “decide the future of Spain”, something that for him is a humiliation”, because he is supposed to be the one who is going to say “how Spain treats an autonomous community”, and that is why he asked that “this nonsense stop in order to change more time to be in La Moncloa.” But Feijóo made it clear to Sánchez that “Spain does not give up” and that “the Spaniards will put their things in their place”, and to Pedro Sánchez “in the past. “We are not going to give up.”

The president of the PP ended with a message addressed to non-nationalist Catalans. He asked those attending “not to forget the majority of the people of Catalonia, who are trampled by the independence movement.”

Along with Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who closed the event, the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and the mayor of the capital, José Luis Martínez Almeida, spoke at the rally. The Madrid president stressed that “Spain will be able to with Sánchez and his partners, our institutions will continue standing and we will not lose even our desire to live in harmony and freedom.” For Ayuso, the figure of the verifier between the PSOE and Junts is also “a humiliation”, which she, she said, “leaves us at the level of the FARC, as if we were two states.” For the Madrid president it is a “shame to have to be controlled by a paralegal political commissioner”, when “in a democracy like ours, with career institutions and officials, is it necessary for a political commissioner to come and direct the future of Spain?” . And she herself answered “no.”

For his part, Mayor Martínez Almeida, also regarding the international verifier, stressed that “we do not need a Salvadoran to come and tell us what we have to do with a fugitive from democracy, like Pedro Sánchez, and a fugitive from Justice, like Carles Puigdemont”. With a President of the Government “who has committed a betrayal of Spain and the Constitution”, and although he “takes out Spanish flags at a rally in Madrid”, he then betrays it, while “we defend it in Waterloo and in Madrid”. Almeida criticized that he had turned the PSOE “into a party that he no longer knows nor the mother who gave birth to him,” after “having made the transition and democracy.”