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  • Direct witness A crowd against the element, by Emilia Landaluce

A "long live Spain!"

Dry broke the chicha calm at the Genoa chamfer, 13, 20 minutes from the starting gun of Colón 2. In front of the headquarters of the PP, dozens of onlookers and sympathizers were crowded from the 11 dozen onlookers and supporters, waiting for speeches and around a of the tables for collecting signatures against the pardons of the imprisoned pro-independence activists.

When Pablo Casado crossed the threshold with Isabel Díaz Ayuso and José Luis Martínez-Almeida, the cries of "President, president!"

they ended up drowning those of "Ayuso, Ayuso!", who had been in the majority.

The PP leader played at home, although he received some isolated criticism from Vox supporters.

Of the three, the one that has introduced the most striking novelty has been Ayuso.

The president of the Community of Madrid has invoked the role of Felipe VI in the pardons: "What is the King going to do? Is he going to sign these pardons? Are they going to make him an accomplice," she wondered.

In other words, you have suggested that not signing them is a possibility.

"Today we want to vindicate not the photo of Colón, but the photo of dignity," said Ayuso.

"They intend to cut up a part of Spain. We claim sovereignty", and that is why "today's presence is not against, but in favor".

Casado was interrupted in his speech by a critical voice with a megaphone: "Pablo Casado, you have abandoned us!"

The president of the PP has asked Pedro Sánchez "to defend the equality of all Spaniards and Justice" and "not to sell the equality of Spaniards to continue in La Moncloa for a few more months."

Faced with a banner criticizing his party ("the PP let Puigdemont escape"), Casado has demanded that the chief executive "tell the Spanish why he wants to steal a part of their nation from them."

"With freedom and without anger. For Spain, for the Constitution and for Justice: Spain yes, pardons no!", The 'popular' leader has finally harangued.

Casado has gone down the street in the center of an authentic melee of followers, until the mouth of Genoa with the Plaza de Colón.

Thus, it was placed on the opposite side to Santiago Abascal, who was placed next to the statue of Blas de Lezo.

There was no possibility, therefore, of re-editing the photo of Columbus from 2019, which so burdened the popular, in the opinion of prominent leaders of Genoa.

There, at the foot of the La Caixa building, some young people have snatched the banner about Puigdemont from the critical protester and there has been a small struggle that has ended with the breaking of the poster's glasses.

"We have told him that he was coming to provoke him, to leave," later recounted the young people who destroyed the sign.

Earlier, the mayor of Madrid reiterated his message before the microphones in the EL MUNDO interview this Sunday: "Here the values ​​that have given us the best 40 years of our democracy are defended."

"That is why I ask Pedro Sánchez to take note, because he is going to pardon the independentistas, but the Spaniards are not going to forgive him!"

"Sánchez, to jail!", A citizen shouted while Almeida criticized the Prime Minister.

At the foot of the monument to Christopher Columbus, the leaders of the PP endured with lizard parsimony the dense heat that fell on Madrid.

Without Alberto Núñez Feijóo, nor Juanma Moreno, nor Fernando López Miras, nor Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, the only baroness present was Ayuso, who monopolized the fervor of the crowd.

Optimism was rife among senior PP officials, because they believe that the low-profile strategy has come out well for them.

But there was also a certain division of opinions: some thought that Unión 78 had not scored a great success of the convocation ("pinchacito") and others saw the attendance in the highest possible band.

Andrés Levy, Tony Cantó and Pablo Montesinos did not stop taking selfies, while Teodoro García Egea showed his supporters his shirt, 'customized' with PP slogans on the bottom.

On the other side of the square, the regional presidents of the PP (not the barons) sent positive messages about the floods of people that came down from Goya Street, where the PP has the headquarters of one of its most emblematic organizations, that of the District of Salamanca.

The cries that have been heard the most in the "popular" wing of Colón were two.

The first, "Pedro Sánchez, resign."

And the second, to the command voice of Rosa Díez: "Enough already!".

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