The officers used rubber bullets and tear gas against a group of demonstrators and detained about twenty participants in the nearby protest, which, according to the government delegation (similar to former civilian governments in Portugal), brought together about 1,700 people.
After an hour of concentration on Rua Ferraz, where the national headquarters of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) is located, the first rows of hooded men began to form and bottles and other objects were thrown at the police column, with insults and insults. criticism of the security forces, reports the Spanish news agency.
As in previous days, the central core of the protests was the Rua Ferraz area, but today there were around 500 demonstrators at the Congress of Deputies, a number released by the government delegation.
The PSOE was the second most voted party in the national elections and socialist Pedro Sánchez hopes to be reappointed as prime minister next week, following a failed attempt to form a right-wing Popular Party government in late September. PP).
Sánchez today asked for the right to accept the outcome of the July 23 elections and the legitimacy of the next government, at a time when there have been daily demonstrations in the streets of several cities against the agreements reached by the PSOE to strengthen its government to continue. in particular against the amnesty for Catalan independence activists negotiated with the Catalan parties.
Far-right groups have called for daily demonstrations in front of the PSOE headquarters on social media and are backed by the Vox party, the third largest formation in the Spanish parliament.
The PP has split from these demonstrations, which in the case of Madrid have repeatedly resulted in riots and police charges, in addition to singing chants and displaying fascist symbols and those of Francisco Franco’s Spanish dictatorship.
But the PP has also called for peaceful protests and called for demonstrations in 52 Spanish cities on Sunday.
Pedro Sánchez said today at the European Socialist Party congress in the Spanish city of Málaga that there will be political stability and coexistence among Spaniards in the next four years.
Source: DN
