• Politics First test of the year against Pedro Sánchez on the street for being "a serious danger to democracy"

The demonstration on Saturday against Pedro Sánchez gains strength.

There are already dozens of civil associations that are pushing to fill the

Plaza de Cibeles in Madrid

at noon under the slogan

For Spain, democracy and the Constitution

.

Meanwhile, the response from the opposition parties is mixed.

The only leader who has confirmed his attendance is Santiago Abascal, from Vox.

On the other hand, Alberto Núñez Feijóo and the new spokesperson for Ciudadanos, Patricia Guasp, will not be present.

The PP and its national leadership will be "represented", although who is still being assessed at the headquarters on Calle Génova.

Official sources of the PP guarantee that leaders will go and that there will be "a presence that shows" that the party "supports" the concentration against the Government because, they emphasize, "there are reasons" for citizens to be "upset."

The only thing that is ruled out by the PP is Feijóo.

In the same way that the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and the mayor of the capital, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, will not attend the concentration, according to what their teams reported yesterday.

In the case of the regional leader, it is pointed out that there is no instruction from Genoa not to attend, but that she has long had the premise of not going to demonstrations given the position she holds.

By not going, Feijóo will not coincide with Abascal or the large Vox delegation at the concentration in full turbulence in their relationship in

Castilla y León

.

Yes, Inés Arrimadas will attend, who ceased to be president of Ciudadanos last weekend but who remains the party's spokesperson in Congress.

The new top leaders will not attend -neither Guasp nor

Adrián Vázquez-

although

Guillermo Díaz

will be on behalf of the national leadership of Cs .

"Democratic deterioration"

The organizing associations -

Fundación Foro Libertad y Alternativa

and

Foro España Cívica

- published a manifesto yesterday to warn of the threat that Spain will become an "illiberal" regime with the policies of the Government.

In conversation with EL MUNDO,

Rosa Díez

is emphatic in warning of this danger: «We are witnessing a deterioration of our democratic system caused by the decisions of Pedro Sánchez.

None of the institutions is safe from the government's paws falling on them.

And all, she says, for "one objective: to demolish the democratic system and govern as a true autocrat."

The former

UPyD

leader reviews: "Eliminate sedition, make the theft of public money cheaper and make laws that protect rapists and pedophiles."

"If you don't have to go out before a government that has turned this into a protectorate of criminals of all kinds and conditions, then you should never go out!" She concludes.

Faced with a democracy "at risk", he says, remember that citizens have rights but also "duties", and that one of them is to "defend the institutions from those who attack them through laws and their decisions".

That is why he urges the Spanish to go out and "act", since he compares the moment with the civic reaction that there was against

1-O

.

"Today we have to stop the coup that is taking place from La Moncloa"

Regarding the absences of Feijóo, Ayuso or Almeida, it stresses that just as they have not "asked for permission" to convene, they respect the "autonomy of the parties" to decide.

"The debate is not who is going or who is not going, but that thousands of Spaniards are going to respond to Sánchez's attack on democracy, the constitutional order and the union between Spaniards," he stressed.

In this way, he vindicates the "protagonist" role of the citizens and emphasizes that they must "activate" in the face of the "fury" of Sánchez, "who knows that he has months left," he says, "and he is going to take advantage of the time he has left to destroy everything what you can" and "behave like a caudillo".

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