Marta Belver Madrid

Madrid

Updated Saturday, March 9, 2024-12:32

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Thousands of people gathered this Saturday in Madrid's

Plaza de Cibeles

shouting "Sánchez, resign."

The protest, called by a hundred civil society associations, and with the assistance of politicians from PP and Vox, occurs 48 hours after the

Congressional

Justice Commission

gave the green light to the opinion of the Amnesty Law that was It will be approved next Thursday in the Plenary Session of the Lower House.

Not even the threat of rain that looms over the capital has deterred the protesters, dressed with Spanish flags and umbrellas printed with the reddish gold, who demand that "this Government has to fall."

"PSOE, traitor, neither worker nor Spanish," is another of the proclamations that are being chanted.

The PP delegation, led by its representative in the European Parliament, Dolors Montserrat, has stressed that the amnesty is an "infamy" and that Sánchez is willing to give in "to the blackmail and extortion" of Junts and ERC to "be dying." a few more months in Moncloa".

Likewise, they have pointed out that "independence is insatiable" and have shown their conviction that the coalition Executive "is already negotiating and working on the referendum" in Catalonia.

The organizers of the rally, in turn, have stressed that "there are plenty of reasons" to demand Sánchez's resignation.

To the "coverage of the coup plotters" with the erasure of the crimes of those accused of the 'procés', they have added "the pointing out to the judges, who are being vilified", that "the Civil Guard does not have the means and the drug traffickers run rampant." at their leisure", the "indoctrination" in the classrooms and "the dark concessions to Morocco".

To which they add: "It is a situation without parallel."

Conveners

The rally has been called by Fundación Foro Libertad y Alternativa, Unión 78, Foro España Cívica, Impulso Ciudadano, Resiste España, De Español a Español por la Constitución, Neos, Nuevo Espíritu de Ermua, Citizens Pro Europe, Libres e Iguales, Otra Ley. Electoral, Catalonia Suma, Espanya i Catalans, Convivencia Cívica Catalana S'ha Finish!, Denaes and another hundred "civic organizations" that have already called other concentrations in Cibeles in 2023 due to the "serious situation" in Spain.

In their manifesto, they warn about the "deconstitutive process" that Sánchez, "with deception and concealment, is deploying hand in hand with his partners."

"If we do not manage to stop it, it will lead us to a long period of decline and loss of freedoms analogous to that suffered by various Latin American countries that have followed this same path and that announce to us the risks we face," they warn.