The Spanish Popular Party (PP, right) called for demonstrations this Sunday in 52 cities against the socialists’ agreements to make Spain’s new left-wing government viable, which include an amnesty for Catalan separatists.
The leader of the PP, the largest party in the Spanish Parliament, last week considered the pacts signed by the PSOE for the re-election of Pedro Sánchez as prime minister “shameful agreements.”
The independentistas “will condition the governability of the Spanish nation in the coming months or years” and achieved an amnesty “without making a single concession or showing the slightest regret”, quite the opposite, Feijóo stated.
“The agreements with the independentists break the equality of Spaniards before the law,” “they convert crimes into legal acts,” “they also humiliate the judiciary” and give “a new impetus to independence,” he added.
Feijóo called for a “firm and calm reaction” from all “Spanish democrats” and promised an “institutional, legal, political and social” opposition, considering that “there are more and more reasons to participate” in protests like those on Sunday, in the streets.
The amnesty negotiated between the PSOE and the Catalans has already brought thousands of people to the streets every day, in demonstrations called on social networks by far-right groups in front of the PSOE headquarters throughout the country, early in the morning. late.
These demonstrations have been supported by Vox, the far-right party that is the third largest party in the Spanish parliament.
In the demonstrations in front of the national headquarters of the PSOE, in Madrid, there have been, on several occasions, riots, police charges, several people arrested and others injured.
According to the police, the riots and police charges were due to radical and violent groups that infiltrated the mostly peaceful protesters.
The PSOE suspended activity at the party headquarters in the afternoon due to the possibility of violent concentrations in front of the buildings.
In addition to the PSOE, leaders of other parties, including the PP, condemned the violent demonstrations near the socialists’ headquarters.
The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, stated that the Government ordered the police to be charged against peaceful and legal demonstrations and asked the police “not to comply with illegal orders if they are repeated again.”
Abascal also promised a “long civil resistance” to the agreements between the socialists and the Catalan independentists.
Following the Spanish elections on July 23, the PSOE reached agreements with the Catalan, Basque and Galician nationalist and independence parties that include an amnesty for Catalan independence activists convicted or facing charges related to the region’s attempted self-determination.
The Spanish parliament is expected to reappoint Sánchez as prime minister this week.
Source: TSF
