{"id":57486,"date":"2024-10-20T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=57486"},"modified":"2025-10-20T00:18:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T22:18:15","slug":"massive-protest-in-madrid-against-the-abuses-and-corruption-of-pedro-sanchezs-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/10\/20\/massive-protest-in-madrid-against-the-abuses-and-corruption-of-pedro-sanchezs-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive protest in Madrid against the abuses and corruption of Pedro S\u00e1nchez's government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Madrid was the scene of a new mass protest today against the government of Pedro S\u00e1nchez, in the midst of a wave of corruption scandals.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/10\/16\/the-spanish-govt-uses-a-hoax-to-defend-the-attorney-general-after-his-indictment\/\">The Spanish Govt uses a hoax to defend the Attorney General after his indictment<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/10\/11\/a-mountain-of-manure-invades-la-moncloa-and-the-synchronized-public-detects-chanel-no-5\/\">A mountain of manure invades La Moncloa and the synchronized public detects Chanel No. 5<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>The protest, called by dozens of civil associations grouped in the Platform for Constitutional Spain, has served to <strong>denounce the abuses and corruption of the coalition government of socialists and communists headed by S\u00e1nchez,<\/strong> which has unleashed a series of attacks against judicial independence and freedom of the press in the midst of scandals that already affect S\u00e1nchez's family environment, his government, his party and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/10\/17\/the-attorney-general-denies-being-investigated-lets-read-what-the-supreme-court-has-said\/\">attorney general appointed by the government<\/a>, charged this week with an alleged crime of revealing secrets.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54080802074_ffc5c0828c_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">Protesters next to the tunnel in Plaza de Castilla (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MarioNoyaM\/status\/1847949892422918375\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Noya<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p>As usual, <strong>the government and its affiliated media have focused their efforts on downplaying the importance of the demonstration<\/strong>, giving a ridiculous estimate of attendance (which is usual when the socialists govern in Spain and there are protests against them). <strong>The images speak for themselves.<\/strong> Here is an image of the demonstration published by RTVE:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54080477001_977a4e4c19_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here is an image of the protest released by the AFP agency:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54080802094_494323befe_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Below these lines, a photo of the demonstration released by Efe:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54080725218_cf9dea3037_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here is a general photo distributed by the organizers:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54080935595_c4c1197f16_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Political support for this call has been rather uneven<\/strong>. Although the Popular Party officially supported the demonstration, <strong>neither its president, Alberto N\u00fa\u00f1ez Feij\u00f3o, nor the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel D\u00edaz Ayuso<\/strong> attended it, following what already seems to be a PP tradition that its leaders do not attend demonstrations if they are not called by the PP. In this case, <strong>the party sent a delegation headed by Carmen F\u00fanez<\/strong>, its deputy secretary of organization, a person with a lower media profile than the aforementioned PP leaders.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"665\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Espa\u00f1a: 400.000 manifestantes se re\u00fanen contra el Gobierno socialista en Plaza de Castilla (Madrid), un gobierno manchado por esc\u00e1ndalos de corrupci\u00f3n y una gesti\u00f3n muy deficiente en todos los \u00e1mbitos importantes.<\/p>\n<p>Haz RT: que los medios corruptos del PSOE no oculten la verdad <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HSOLDiJoRy\">pic.twitter.com\/HSOLDiJoRy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Capit\u00e1n Bitcoin (@CapitanBitcoin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CapitanBitcoin\/status\/1847963146541023595?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On the contrary, <strong>the president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, and a large part of the leadership of his party attended the protest<\/strong>, also following a tradition of Vox of attending demonstrations against the government even if they were not called by that party.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"665\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Siempre con los espa\u00f1oles\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8. Gobierno dimisi\u00f3n, y el 1, y la mafia que lo rodea, a prisi\u00f3n! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wsX7WE5rvj\">pic.twitter.com\/wsX7WE5rvj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Isabel P\u00e9rez Mo\u00f1ino (@Isabelperezmoi1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Isabelperezmoi1\/status\/1847987050269515956?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Above these lines we can see <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Isabelperezmoi1\/status\/1847987050269515956\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a video by Isabel P\u00e9rez Mo\u00f1ino<\/a> in which Abascal appears as just another protester, on the street, at this demonstration. Below you can listen to <strong>the statements that the leader of Vox made to the media<\/strong> (the video is in Spanish, you can activate automatic English subtitles in the bottom bar of the player):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Declaraciones de Abascal en la protesta contra el gobierno de S\u00e1nchez\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CPXYAvgsyNs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can watch the broadcast of this protest made by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@EstadodeAlarmaTV\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EDATV<\/a> here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Manifestaci\u00f3n por la Unidad de Espa\u00f1a\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vw0jekY29DE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Main photo: Plataforma por la Espa\u00f1a Constitucional.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madrid was the scene of a new mass protest today against the government of Pedro S\u00e1nchez, in the midst of a wave of corruption scandals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10398],"tags":[325,22895,10471,641,2721,22896,2169,7535],"class_list":["post-57486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-spain","tag-alberto-nunez-feijoo","tag-carmen-funez","tag-isabel-diaz-ayuso","tag-partido-popular","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-plataforma-por-la-espana-constitucional","tag-santiago-abascal-conde","tag-vox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}