Thousands of people protested in the Spanish capital against the government’s plan to amnesty separatists

according to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency quoted by “Spiegel” weekly newspaper, in Madrid Thousands of Spaniards demonstrated on Saturday against a planned amnesty law for separatists. They marched through the center of the capital, waving Spanish flags and singing patriotic anthems.

The protesters were mainly against the cooperation of the minority government led by Pedro. Socialist Sánchez rallied with Catalan parties seeking to secede from the rest of Spain. Santiago Abascal, head of the right-wing populist VAX party, told reporters: As far as his party is concerned, there will be no truce or peace with this government.

This is the second attempt to pass the amnesty law is At the end of January, this plan did not win the majority of the parliament. At the time, even former Catalan regional president Carles Puigdemont’s party voted against the bill, which specifically favored Catalan independence activists. For the separatist party Younes, this bill was not satisfactory enough, because in their opinion, it did not guarantee Puigdemont’s immunity from punishment.

Now the scope of the amnesty has been expanded for the new draft that is still being voted on. Puigdemont will actually benefit from this bill. He declared the region independent in 2017 after a controversial referendum, thereby breaking away from Spain. The central government in Madrid then accused him of rebellion and embezzlement of public funds, stripped the Catalan regional government of power, ordered new elections and put Puigdemont on a wanted list. After that he went abroad and now lives in Belgium.

If the parliament approves the second version of the amnesty law This bill must be approved by the Senate. However, in the event of an expected negative vote by the Senate, the law could eventually be passed by Parliament in a new round. The opposition has already announced that it will challenge the amnesty law in the Supreme Court.

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