2023-09-24 12:57:15
With Spanish flags and the slogan “No to amnesty!”, around 40,000 supporters of the Spanish right, according to the organizers and the Madrid authorities, gathered two days before the debate on the candidacy for the post of Prime Minister. minister of the leader of the Popular Party (PP), Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who for the moment does not have a majority. “For me it is obvious, I owe myself exclusively to the Spanish people as a whole, I am there for them, nothing more, I may or may not become president of the government (editor’s note: official title of the Prime Minister), now or soon, but as far as I am concerned, what matters for Spain is freedom, equality and dignity,” Mr. Feijóo declared in front of an audience who chanted “President, president! “.
After the legislative elections of July 23 which put the PP in the lead, it is four votes short of the Chamber of Deputies to reach the majority. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, charged by King Felipe VI with forming a government, should have convinced regionalist parties, kingmakers in a very fragmented Parliament, but they refused to give him their support because of his alliance with the far-right Vox party.
Protesters criticized the fact that Pedro Sánchez, the outgoing socialist prime minister, could accept amnesty in order to stay in power.
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