The Municipal Police of Madrid has calculated that 126,000 people have attended the rally against pardons for separatists convicted of the illegal referendum held this afternoon in the Plaza de Colón and surrounding areas, according to data provided by the City Council of Madrid. The concentration, called by the Unión 78 platform, was scheduled to begin at 12 noon, but has finally been delayed for half an hour due to technical difficulties. Due to the multitude of people who have approached Colón, the president of Ciudadanos, Inés Arrimadas, and the leader of the orange formation in Cataloni
The Municipal Police of Madrid has calculated that 126,000 people have attended the rally against pardons for separatists convicted of the illegal referendum held this afternoon in the Plaza de Colón and surrounding areas, according to data provided by the City Council of Madrid. The concentration, called by the Unión 78 platform, was scheduled to begin at 12 noon, but has finally been delayed for half an hour due to technical difficulties. Due to the multitude of people who have approached Colón, the president of Ciudadanos, Inés Arrimadas, and the leader of the orange formation in Catalonia, Carlos Carrizosa, are having difficulties accessing the Madrid square. The meeting was also attended by, among others, the president of the Popular Party, Pablo Casado la alcaldesa de Madrid Isabel Díaz Ayuso y el alcalde José Luíz Rodríguez Alemida, and the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal. According to the promoters, it is a "transversal" concentration where people with "different ideologies", also "many" who have voted for the PSOE, will be "united in defense of the common." "There we all have the same card" and "we are Spanish, we defend democracy and the Constitution" as well as "the unity of the Spanish nation", in the words of the former president of UPyD. In the Colón scenario, it is not expected that there will be political representatives but only members of Unión 78, according to sources from the convening platform. This protest takes place a few days after the Chief Executive, Pedro Sánchez, asked from Argentina for "understanding and magnanimity" to Spanish society in defense of pardons and stressed that, although he understands "the objections", the "objective deserves the grief "because steps must be taken in" the relaxation of coexistence. " However, PP, Cs and Vox reject the arguments of the Executive and consider that there are even "more reasons" to demonstrate, especially when it has been known that the Civil Guard intervened in October 2020
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