Spain: Vox supporters demonstrate in Madrid
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Supporters of the Vox party gathered during an anti-government demonstration in Madrid on November 27, 2022. AFP - PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU
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This Sunday, November 27 in Madrid, the ultra-right Vox party, the third parliamentary force, demonstrated in Christopher Columbus Square to voice its anger against the socialist government of Pedro Sanchez.
Several thousand supporters attended.
The leader Santiago Abascal claimed that the policy of Pedro Sanchez represents the betrayal, the ruin and the misery of Spain.
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With our correspondent in Madrid
,
François Musseau
In the midst of an army of blood and gold Spanish flags, a huge slogan appears in the middle of Columbus Square: “
Pedro Sanchez, in prison
”.
A message that sums up the feeling of anger that crosses all the demonstrators who moved on this sunny day.
The socialist executive would be responsible for all evil: growing poverty, the energy crisis, reduced sentences for sex offenders, the supposed extreme freedom granted to transsexuals.
“
It was the straw that broke the camel’s back
”
José Ramon, 76, is one of those angry people and answered the call of
the ultra-right Vox party
.
“
The main reason is the plans that the government is putting into execution, such as the release of delinquents from prison... As for the putschists, they took away all their sentences, they are even going to compensate them.
The government has no vision.
His only idea is to make concessions so that they, the socialists, stay in power
, ”he is indignant.
Recently, the Sanchez government removed from the Penal Code, by decree, the offense of sedition, one of the charges for nine Catalan separatist leaders imprisoned and today released.
"
It's the straw that broke the camel's back
," said Marie Carmen, a civil servant mad with rage.
"
It is not possible to legislate without relying on Parliament, the opposition, on nothing
," she adds.
At the microphone, leader Santiago Abascal calls for early elections, but there is little chance that he will be heard.
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