Barcelona will experience a new one this Sunday manifestation against amnesty law. It will not be the first, but this one arrives with the streets already agitated by the PSOE pact with Junts and ERC. Especially in Madrid, where for the ninth consecutive day thousands of people surrounded the PSOE headquarters, in rallies in which the riot unit of the National Police so that the protesters did not overcome the protective fences or the police cordon that protected the building. In Barcelona, the protest in front of the PSC headquarters on Monday brought together some 350 people, among them the leader of Vox in Catalonia, Ignacio Garrigaand several far-right deputies.
Next Sunday’s demonstration was called by the platform Catalonia adds up for Spain right after the photo of the socialist Santos Cerdan with the former president Carles Puigdemont negotiating the investiture of Pedro Sánchez and the amnesty law in Brussels with a huge photograph of the October 1 referendum in the background. An image that was gasoline for the right. Already that day some political leaders, such as the leader of the PPC, Alejandro Fernandez, announced their presence; But according to the events, more participants have joined.
The protest scheduled at 12.00 in the Plaza de Sant Jaume, in front of the Generalitat de Catalunya building, and under the motto ‘Not in the name of Spain. No to amnesty‘, will have a replica – as Alberto Núñez Feijóo announced last Monday – in all the provincial capitals of Spain.
These are some of the political leaders who will gather in the Catalan capital:
The popular ones made a great display for the October 8 demonstration called by the Catalan Civil Society (SCC) and several leaders arrived in the Catalan capital, among them, Feijóoas well as several presidents of autonomous communities governed by the party such as Isabel Diaz Ayuso either Juanma Moreno. This Sunday will be different. Although the list is not yet closed, the attendance of national leaders is not expected, but the main faces of the Catalan leadership are expected to attend. Among those who will surely attend are, in addition to Fernandezthe mayor of Castelldefels and provincial president, Manu Reyesthe party leader in Barcelona City Council, Dani Sireraas well as other deputies of the Parliament and the Congress of Deputies such as Nacho Martin Blanco either Santi Rodriguez.
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The delegation of Vox will be led by the party leader in Catalonia, Ignacio Garriga, who already demonstrated in front of the socialists’ headquarters in the Poblenou neighborhood of Barcelona. According to party sources, “all” the Catalan representatives of the party will accompany him, including the deputies of the Parliament, as well as the municipal leader, Gonzalo de Oro-Pulido, and other councilors from the province of Barcelona. They also take for granted the mobilization of “councilmen, deputies and leaders from other parts of Spain”, although for the moment they avoid specifying names.
Finally, on the part of Citizensthey take for granted the participation of Carlos Carrizosa, who will also be accompanied by the rest of the party members in the Catalan Chamber. At the moment, the party does not confirm the participation of the general secretary, Adrian Vazquez, nor from any MEP of the party, although they do not rule it out either. In parallel, the oranges have organized an event on amnesty law in the Col·legi d’Advocats (ICAB) the next Friday. It is titled ‘The fit of investiture pacts in constitutional Spain’ and will feature the participation of the professor Carlos Perez del Valle as well as the MEP Eva Poptcheva and from Carrizosa himself.