On a winter morning as unpleasant as it can be in Madrid, barely 15,000 people, according to the Government Delegation, attended the Cibeles to protest against the amnesty and demand the departure of Pedro Sánchez de la Moncloa.
The event, in which shouts such as “Sánchez, hijo de puta!” were uttered or “Puigdemont, in prison”, was starred by Alejo Vidal-Quadras, who was victorious -“Valiente, valiente!”- after having survived the shot received in November at the hands of “a hitman sent by a terrorist regime”, which is how he referred to Iran.
The conservative politician, who chairs Foro Libertad
Although there were no political parties among the convenors, the leaders of the formations that supported the protest – Ciutadans, the PP and Vox – grabbed the spotlight at the beginning.
On the part of the PP, with the general meeting in Córdoba to relaunch its political strategy, there were Dolors Montserrat, head of the delegation in Brussels, and the vice secretaries Ester Muñoz, Juan Bravo and Noelia Núñez, who denounced the “corrupt transaction of exchanging votes for impunity” of which they accuse Sánchez.
The ultra-right, on the other hand, was represented at the highest level, with Santiago Abascal at the helm. The president of Vox, who was avoided by the representatives of the PP, accused the populists of being ambiguous for demonstrating yesterday against the amnesty when on Wednesday they will meet again in the European Parliament with the Minister of Justice, Félix Bolaños, to negotiate the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary.
Abascal echoed the words of José María Aznar – “Whoever can do, let him do” – and again asked that the PP paralyze the Senate, beyond stopping it for two months, the processing of the law Amnesty: “They can do it there, as Aznar told them, and if not, let them explain”, he challenged the people, even though, constitutionally, this possibility is not foreseen.
Ciutadans MEPs Adrián Vázquez and Jordi Cañas, secretary general and spokesperson, respectively, agreed with the PP pointing out that the battle will be decided in the European institutions, which will “derail” the amnesty.
