The most violent masked men did not appear this Monday in sufficient numbers to snatch the first line of the anti-amnesty escrache on Ferraz street in Madrid to the elderly and the conventional ultras who faced the deployment of riot police. In this eleventh concentration, lines and lines of police have followed each other in front of the protest and the metal fences arranged in a diamond pattern without them even having to put on their helmets. Tonight has been a quiet concentration, with nearly 2,000 people (1,200 according to the Government Delegation)but not exempt from key details of the evolution of this campaign.
There has been no prayer of the Rosary, no injuries or arrests; Yes, the slogans against the King (“Felipe, mason, defend your nation”), the President of the Government (“Pedro Sánchez, die”) and the main parties (“PSOE, PP, it’s the same shit”).
At the beginning of the rally, one of his promoters, the youtuber Miguel Frontera– who was later rebuked by the toughest – has addressed the crowd with a megaphone in hand asking that there be no public disorder: “The other day they tied the barriers with padlocks; today they do it with plastic that could be cut with a key, and they would like to do it with toilet paper because it is convenient for them if you tear it up.
Face to sun
To the repeated and very resounding interpretation of Face to the Sun by the crowd, to the well-known imprecations full of anger against the press and to the now usual Carlist flags, Spanish with a shield, Spanish with a hole and Spanish with the double N of National November They joined this Monday in the mobilization several Catalan esteladas crossed out with a black. The police forecast of a hottest night around the federal headquarters of the PSOE due to the publication of the amnesty bill has not been fulfilled at the moment.
The main difference between this demonstration and the ten that preceded it is the fact that the protesters who have stopped to read already have a text of the amnesty bill in the media to react to. And also that they are scheduled for next Wednesday and Thursday large rallies around Congress in the face of which it seems that the National November was reserving its strength.
Vox has also called, through its Solidaridad union, a general strike for November 24. The fact that that day is black fryday raises considerable doubts about the success of the call, as well as the strategic success of its creator.
Special guest
The usual choreography of the siege of what the protesters consider “is not a headquarters, it is a brothel” Today, however, it has had a key differential of political and propaganda reach.
In Madrid pic.twitter.com/UclSJdFfm8
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) November 13, 2023
At the back of the concentration the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, took a photo with a special guest: he is in Madrid to attend the mobilizations of these days Tucker CarlsonAmerican television journalist (former CNN, former Fox) who became a very prominent agitator due to his radicalism, the first of the North American extreme right who would end up launching his most hyperventilated hosts into take the Capitoland now concitator of political and religious extremists throughout the West from a position that they define in the US as “paleoconservatism.”
Carlson was the most prominent spreader of the Trumpist hoax about a bull in the United States elections. In April 2023 he left Fox when that ultra-conservative network had to pay 700 million dollars in a lawsuit filed by American Democrats.
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When he left Fox last April, he received an offer from Russian public television and the official support from Moscow in the form of statements by the foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, who deplored his dismissal. The presence of Tucker Carlson at the rally has been the most relevant international media support that this protest has received.
There is another element of the solidification of this phenomenon of protests that has finished crystallizing this Monday. Although the less radical faction of the protesters goes to Ferraz carrying constitutional flags, that street and its angry crowd no longer host only at night a campaign against the amnesty agreed by Pedro Sánchez with Carles Puigdemont: Ferraz is now also the crucible of disaffection, if not total repudiation, of a large sector of the Spanish right towards the system emanating from the Transition, the monarchy of Felipe VI and the 1978 Constitution.