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A cordon of the National Police had to intervene yesterday to prevent a group of young people from the extreme left from bursting the pan against Pedro Sánchez that has been taking place for several days in the Plaza de los Príncipes in Lisbon Park.

In the images you can see how several agents are placed between the usual group of protesters, who carry Spanish flags, and dozens of young people, some of them carrying the republican flag.

This morning, the deputy mayor and spokesperson for Unidas Podemos in Alcorcón, Jesús Santos, has said that the caceroladas of the last days in the Parque Lisboa neighborhood "broke the consensus" to use public roads responsibly "and that is why they have answer".

This has been pointed out by Santos after a group of some 60 left-wing radicals, calling themselves "anti-fascists", burst into the Princes of Spain square in Alcorcón, to boycott the saucepan.

"The use of public roads is everyone's right, not the privilege of a few. Collectively, we had reached the consensus to use it responsibly to beat the virus, but the extreme right has broken it with their calls. Therefore, there are people who respond, "Santos insists on his Twitter account.

The spokesperson for Unidas Podemos affirms that "it was the extreme right, media, political and institutional, with (the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz-) Ayuso at the forefront, which has turned a collective struggle into a challenge to health" .

"If a party feels privileged to occupy the public highway, with what legitimacy is the respondent asked not to do so?" Adds the spokesman.

"If the casseroles stop and a responsible use of public roads is made, we will return to the common commitment of a region that is still in phase 0. In which, by the way, we will continue much longer at this rate," he added. spokesperson for Podemos Community of Madrid.

For its part, the PP of Alcorcón, which ruled the municipality until June 2019, has also spoken on social networks and thanked the National Police for "protecting the neighbors against the radical group that has come to burst their protest peaceful".

The Minister of Housing and Local Administration, David Pérez (PP), former mayor of Alcorcón, expressed on Monday his support for the pan-rallies against the central government that have spread in recent days to the municipality, with the Parque Lisboa neighborhood as the epicenter of the protests.

Vox Alcorcón has also shown through its social networks its outrage at the "threats" from the "extreme left" to "families who freely go out into the streets to protest against the government."

"From Vox we denounce this type of acts in the most energetic and firm way and we denounce that from the highest levels of this government, less and less social and more communist, not only are they allowed, but they are justified and even encouraged", he points out Vox spokesman Pedro Moreno.

Moreno demands a condemnation of what happened this Monday "by all the groups that fill their mouths when they talk about democracy but who keep their heads down when it is attacked."

The gatherings and casseroles in different parts of Madrid continued yesterday for the ninth consecutive day surrounded by an extensive police device deployed by the Government Delegation that will be maintained in the coming days to monitor compliance with security measures for the coronavirus.

Shouts of "freedom" and "Government resignation" have been the proclamations in all these gatherings, in which the agents have asked the assistants to maintain the distance measures and not to cut off the traffic on the roads.

Núñez de Balboa, in the Salamanca district, epicenter of the protests the first days, has had more than a dozen police vehicles and a helicopter flying over the area.

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