After the pandemic reinvented

LGBTI Pride

in

online

format

last year, the demonstration, the summit of this protest party, has returned to the streets of Madrid this Saturday, limited to 25,000 people, without floats, with a mask and a safety distance. , and championed by the recently approved Trans Law.

Starting at 8:00 p.m., the protesters will begin to travel the two kilometers that separate

the Plaza de Carlos V and Plaza de Colón

, where a

manifesto

will be read

and the protest will end at around 11:00 p.m.

"We will march with pride, pulling out our feathers,"

said the president of Cogam, Carmen García de Merlo, shortly before the demonstration began.

The head, located in the Plaza de Murillo, next to the entrance of the Prado Museum, will carry a banner with the slogan

"Human rights are not negotiated, they legislate: comprehensive trans law now

.

"

Although

no politician will be in the lead

, it is expected that three ministers of Podemos will attend the demonstration:

Irene Montero

(Equality),

Yolanda Díaz

(Labor) and

Ione Belarra

(Social Rights and general secretary of the organization).

From Ciudadanos, they will be the deputy mayor of Madrid,

Begoña Villacís

;

the party's deputy secretary general and deputy spokesperson in Congress,

Edmundo Bal

;

and the deputy

Sara Giménez

, responsible for Social Policies who attend the event.

In this case, the president of the formation

Inés Arrimadas

will not attend

- who turns 40 that same day and will celebrate it with her family - who was in the 2019 edition when the party representatives were rebuked by attendees of the demonstration that They reproached them for having agreed with Vox, both at the City Council and in the Community of Madrid, reports Efe.

The Secretary of State for Equality and against Gender Violence, Noelia Vera;

the Secretary of State for Agenda 2030, Enrique Santiago and the General Director of Sexual Diversity and LGTBI Rights, Boti García, as well as the MEP and spokesperson for the federal direction of IU Sira Rego.

The Socialists have not yet officially confirmed their attendance

at a demonstration to which some 70 trans organizations have asked not to be invited

Festive atmosphere in Chueca

The rainbow atmosphere on the street was palpable hours before the parade.

In the Plaza de Chueca

dozens of people drank and sang in a group

to the beat of guitars and an accordion, surrounded by big heads and with their masks almost gone.

Quieter was the Plaza de Pedro Zerolo, with people drinking but without large crowds and where the Municipal Police had to intervene at dawn on Friday to dismantle a large bottle.

The MADO organizers have issued a statement this Saturday to

distance themselves from these incidents

, which "do not correspond to any act organized" by them, "but to spontaneous concentrations that are not, at all, the responsibility of the organization."

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