Massive renewed protests against Sanchez’s concessions to Spanish separatists

– International news – Tasnim News Agency According to the German weekly newspaper “Spiegel”, in Madrid, Spain, mass protests against Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez again The country has been re-elected.

Pedro Sanchez was re-elected as Spain’s prime minister on Thursday, but the fury of Spain’s right-wing opposition has not subsided. On Saturday, more than 100,000 people demonstrated again in the capital Madrid against a planned amnesty for Catalan separatists and other concessions given by Sanchez to the separatists to form a new coalition government. Socialist Sánchez made the promise in exchange for support from two Catalan separatist parties.

Organizers of the demonstration in Madrid spoke of a million participants, while the government’s representation in the capital put the number at 170,000. . The slogan of the demonstration was: “Not in my name: no amnesty and no autonomy.” For freedom, unity and equality”.

According to the images broadcast on TV, the banners read: “Sanchez in prison”, “Sanchez the traitor”. Last Sunday, before the successful formation of the government, hundreds A thousand people protested in nationwide demonstrations against Sánchez and the general amnesty for separatists.

The call of more than 50 retired officers after Sánchez’s re-election shows how extreme the right wing has become in Spain: they are from the Spanish army They want to oust the newly elected prime minister and then call new elections – in other words, they want nothing more than a coup.

Alberto Núñez Feijo, head of the largest opposition PP party, and Santiago Abascal, The head of the right-wing populist party Vox also called for current demonstrations. Although the People’s Party emerged as the strongest force from the July 23 election, Feijo did not win a parliamentary majority.

Fijo reiterated on the sidelines of today’s demonstration that Sanchez, by rejecting amnesty before the election, He has deceived the voters. Abascal once again accused the Socialists of wanting to establish a dictatorship.

Patxi López, the spokesman for the Socialists in parliament, accused the opposition of not really protesting the amnesty because they suffered a defeat in the July elections that They did not want to accept it.

The night before these protests, several thousand people demonstrated again in front of the PSOE headquarters of Sanchez in Madrid. The 15th consecutive night of protests against Sanchez turned violent at times.

Conservatives and right-wing populists in Spain accuse Sanchez of trying to establish a “dictatorship” and endanger democracy, separation of powers and Spanish unity. That is why, according to them, Spaniards should protest until new elections are held. Sanchez was elected as the new prime minister on Thursday in the first round of voting with an absolute majority of parliamentarians. In this way, Pedro Sánchez, a social democrat, was confirmed as the prime minister of Spain for another four years.

This 51-year-old politician from the Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) has been in charge of the fourth largest economy of the European Union since mid-2018 with the government The minority governs.

The decisive factor for Sanchez’s re-election was the support of two Catalan parties, to whom he promised to enact an amnesty law for independence supporters of this separatist region.

The conservatives (PP) and the far-right party Vox accused Sánchez of breaking the law because of the amnesty promised to separatists.

Sánchez’s promised amnesty to separatists ​It is especially beneficial for those activists who were prosecuted by the Spanish judicial system after the failed secession of Catalonia from Spain in 2017. Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, who could return to Spain after years in exile, would also benefit.

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