Major rally held in Madrid demanding general elections
A large demonstration took place in the Spanish capital on October 20th, with protesters demanding general elections, TASS reports
According to the government’s representative office, about 25,000 people joined the action under the slogan: ‘For unity, dignity, law and freedom. General elections, now!’ The rally was organised by a hundred associations united in the Platform for Constitutional Spain. Many protesters waved Spanish flags and chanted slogans against PM Pedro Sanchez and his government. Representatives of the opposition parties joined the rally.
As the Libertad Digital newspaper noted, the protest organisers stated, among other things, a very serious decline of the country’s democracy and the ‘purchase’ of parliamentary support from the government through measures that undermine equality, inter-territorial solidarity and the rule of law. The organisers of the rally also recalled that Pedro Sanchez didn’t win the last general elections and took the post of PM due to the support of parties ‘which are united in their disgust and hostility to Spanish democracy’.
General elections are scheduled in Spain for 2027. The last expression of will in summer 2023 resulted in the conservative Popular Party, headed by Alberto Nuñez Feijóo, receiving the largest number of seats in Parliament. Nevertheless, it did not receive an absolute majority of seats in order to independently approve its leader for the post of PM.
