This Saturday, starting at 12:00 p.m., Madrid’s Plaza de Cibeles will be the scene of a new protest against Pedro Sánchez’s concessions to the pro-independence parties in exchange for the votes necessary for his inauguration. Under the motto Not in my name: neither amnesty, nor self-determination. For freedom, unity and equality!, more than a hundred associations and civil society organizations have called on voters “on the left, center or right” to “postpone their ideological differences” and unite in defense of the Constitution.
The list of people who will speak at the event includes the names of the Portuguese MEP Paulo Rangel, Professor Félix Ovejero, the writers Andrés Trapiello, Conchita Martín and Albert Boadella, the Venezuelan journalist Miguel Henrique Otero, the president of S’ha Hacet!, Júlia Calvet, and the philosopher Fernando Savater, Europa Press reports. The mobilization will also have the assistance of the leaders of PP and Vox, Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Santiago Abascal.
“It is important to go to demonstrate once again that Spain is not going to surrender to the criminal behavior of Sánchez, whom no one voted for such destruction; even more so after what we saw and heard in the debate of his pathetic investiture, where showed that his own partners do not trust him and openly demand that he say what he has agreed with them,” argues Inma Castilla de Cortázar, vice president of Foro Libertad y Alternativa – one of the organizing organizations -, alluding to the holding a self-determination referendum in Catalonia.
In the manifesto agreed by the promoters of the concentration in Madrid, it is censured that the recently re-elected president, “in close alliance with the declared enemies of the Nation and within a constitutional project, is preparing to approve laws that cannot fit into the Norm.” “Fundamental in exchange for staying in power.” After the pacts signed by the PSOE with ERC and Junts, they consider that in Spain now “there is a transition from the already unusual pardon to those responsible for the coup d’état in Catalonia”, with the granting of pardons to those convicted for the illegal consultation of 1 -Or, “to the overwhelming political and legal legitimation of his actions.”
“The amnesty, whose unconstitutionality was maintained until a few months ago by the same people who now shamelessly use it to obtain an investiture that is born corrupt, is not only contrary to our Constitution, which it clearly is. It is not only a profound immorality that considers Well, the story of the secessionists who perpetrated the coup d’état in the fall of 2017 and outrages those who loyally defended the rule of law. It is not only an iniquity that ends the equality of Spaniards and the division of powers and places the politicians who hold power above the law, which is also what it is,” they state.
In addition to all this, they add, “the distribution of power has been agreed with the rule of law and the Nation as a bargaining chip”, “the division of powers has been disfigured to the point of making it unrecognizable, certain of obtaining the support of a Constitutional Court kidnapped”, and “overwhelming propaganda has been deployed, aimed at justifying the unjustifiable”. To which they add: “The machination and obscene deception of the population becomes an instrument of political action, which substantiates the assertion that, just as the amnesty now underway was denied, the call for a referendum on secession, more or less hidden, but whose completion is already being negotiated”.
Along with Foro Libertad y Alternativa, the conveners also include Unión 78, Foro España Cívica, Cataluña Suma, Pie en Pared, S’ha Finish!, NEOS, Association for Tolerance, Catalan Civic Coexistence, From Spanish to Spanish for the Constitution , OLE (Another Electoral Law), Resiste España, Nuevo Espíritu de Ermua and a hundred civic organizations that already promoted another rally in Cibeles on January 21 under the motto For Spain, Democracy and the Constitution.