Thousands of people demand Sánchez's resignation in a demonstration over the power outage

Thousands of people have gathered here at the Plaça de Colón in Madrid and the others have been called by the platform For Constitutional Spain, which brings together 129 civic associations, to demand Sánchez's resignation and demand the immediate calling of elections. The protests have been affected by PP and VOX.

They demand that the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, call elections due to the disagreement of the latest measures approved by the central Executive.

The leader of the Popular group to the Congress of Deputies, Miguel Tellado, has underlined that the Executive is in a situation “frankly delicate because it does not have a parliamentary majority that supports the current action, and, therefore, we have a failed Government.”

In statements at the mitjans during the rally at Plaça de Colón in Madrid against the Government, called by various civil associations, the leader of the PP in Congress has stated that his party shares the objective of the protests “for the resignation of President Pedro Sánchez and the call for elections.”

Reading of various manifestos

The protest gathering began around 12:15 p.m. with the reading of various manifestos, in a practically full Plaça de Colom, with the voltage of the adjoining roundabout and the proper Génova street also closed by protesters.

“We are in a failed legislature, which we believe is a wrong legislature and which only responds to the desire for power” of the president of the Government, Tellado will say.

“Spain has a Government that does not govern, a Congress that does not legislate and unite independentist minorities, extremist minorities who are the ones who decide what is right for Spain,” continued Tellado, who pointed out that “the most obvious example is the collapse that the railway infrastructures are going to undergo at the beginning of this week and this week.” “It is also not included in the railway lines of Andalusia.”

VOX issues misses to the PP

“The situation is unsustainable and for now we are here to collect more than one hundred associations of the Spanish civil society, which demand the resignation of Pedro Sánchez and the immediate calling of elections,” he pointed out.

Vox leaders have also joined the rally, with the municipal leader to Madrid Javier Ortega Smith, who has underlined that "the time has arrived that the Spanish have agreed that it is not a question of centuries, that it is not a question of parts."

In a message addressed directly to the Popular Party, Ortega Smith said that “it is not possible to be in danger of losing heat”, but rather that “it is possible to overthrow it, treure'l of the institutions, because Sánchez is the greatest enemy in Spain”.

The Government's response

The Government's response has come from the Minister for Digital Transformation and Public Administration, Óscar López, who has qualified the demonstration against the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, with an expression of “Spain of the passat” and has assured that he represents “all those who are against the advances” of the country.

In statements to the press, López has highlighted the Government's economic assessments, stating that “Spain has a record of occupation and growth”, and has contrasted this situation with what he considers a position “more petite and more irrelevant” of the opposition.

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The minister has interpreted the demonstration as a reflection of the social policies of the Executive: “Those who are demonstrating are against the labor reform, against the push for pensions, against the minimum living income, against the push for the minimum wage,” he underlined.

This protest has caused a stir in Madrid because he attended a demonstration on this day in defense of Europe, arguing that “Europe has been threatened by an ultra-Dretan woman who threatens our values.”