Thousands of people have demonstrated this Saturday in the Plaza de Colón in Madrid for ask for the resignation of the President of the government, Pedro Sánchezand the immediate call for general elections. The concentration, convened by 129 civic associations agglutinated in the ‘Platform for Constitutional Spain, has the presence of leaders of the Popular party and Vox.
The concentration – to which about 25,000 people have attended, according to data from the Government Delegation in Madrid and 200,000 according to the organization – has started at 12:15 hours with the Reading several manifestos in a virtually full Columbus squarewith the immediate vicinity of the next roundabout and the nearby Genoa street also crowded by protesters.
Tellado: “A failed government”
The spokesman of the popular group in the Congress of Deputies, Miguel Telladohas pointed out in statements to the media that the Executive is in a “frankly delicate situation because it does not have a parliamentary majority that supports its action, and, therefore, we are facing a failed government.”
Tellado has affirmed that his party shares the objective of the protests “for the resignation of President Pedro Sánchez and the call for elections.” “We are in a failed legislature, That we believe that it is a wrong legislature and that it only responds to the desire of power “of the president of the Government, Tellado added.
“In Spain we have a government that does not govern, a congress that does not legislate and some independence minorities, extremist minorities that are the ones that decide What is done in Spain “, has continued the ‘popular’ spokesman, who pointed out that” the most obvious example is the collapse suffered by railway infrastructures at the beginning of this week and this same night also in the railway lines of Andalusia. “
“The situation is unsustainable and that is why we are here by supporting more than one hundred and twenty associations of Spanish civil society, which claim the resignation of Pedro Sánchez and the immediate election call“He pointed out.
Vox asks Sánchez to overthrow
To the concentration, Vox leaders have also been added, such as the municipal spokesman in Madrid Javier Ortega Smithwho has declared that “the time has come when the Spaniards have realized that it is not a matter of acronyms, which is not a matter of parties.”
In a message directed directly to the Popular Party, Ortega Smith has said that “it cannot be putting hot cloths”, but “You have to overthrow it, get it out of institutions, Because Sánchez is the greatest enemy of Spain. ”
Óscar López: “Those against progress are manifested”
This demonstration has referred to the Minister for Digital Transformation and Public Function, Óscar Lópezwho has opposed this Saturday’s protest against the Government with the concentration planned for Sunday for the defense of Europe: “Today those who are against the advances of this country are manifestedand tomorrow the future is manifested. ”
López recalled that those who have taken to the street in Columbus “They are against labor reform, the rise in pensionsof the minimum vital income and to raise the minimum wage. ”
The also leader of the Madrid PSOE has specified that although the PP leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóohas not gone to the demonstration and the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso“The PP of Madrid has been present.”
