The Spanish opposition has called for a massive march against Pedro Sánchez and called for "elections already"

Tens of thousands of people invaded the Plaza de Colón in Madrid during a protest convened by the two main right-wing forces in Spain, the Popular Party (PP) and the citizens, and the largest right, Vox, against the Prime Minister, the Socialist Pedro Sánchez and ask for early elections.

"The clamor of today is that we want to vote. Sánchez deceived us, He said that there would be elections and that there is no", badured the leader of the citizens, Albert Rivera, just before the beginning of the central act, according to the Spanish newspaper The country.

At his side, the leader of the PP, Pablo Casado, warned that the mandate of Sanchez "came to an end" and announced the beginning of "the reconquest of the hearts of the Spaniards".

For his part, the holder of Vox, Santiago Abascal, also called for immediate elections and called for the suspension of the autonomy of the region of Catalonia, which has been plunged for almost two years into an institutional confrontation with Madrid for his declaration of independence. Failure 2017

In the midst of shouts of "Long live the Constitution!", "Long live Spain!" and "¡Viva el Rey!", protesters hoisted national flags and sang songs by Manolo Escobar, Joan Manuel Serrat and Luis Fonsi.

According to the Spanish government, more than 45,000 people gathered in the Plaza de Colón, a figure much higher than that predicted by the organizers of the event.

The PP and the citizens agreed that it was not a demonstration of parties and excluded the initials of their formations in the slogans of the call.

Political tensions are worsening on the eve of the trial that starts on Tuesday in the Supreme Court against 12 separatist leaders, who face charges, including rebellion, for their role in a failed attempt at independence in 2017. .

Sánchez inherited the Catalan crisis from his predecessor at the Moncloa Palace, Mariano Rajoy, who then chaired the PP. Rajoy could not contain the rise of the independence movement, a trend to which about half of the voters in the region subscribed.

The Socialist leader came to power in June with the promise of Smooth tensions between Madrid's central government and Catalan leaders in Barcelona. Sánchez met twice with the regional government president, Quim Torra, and members of both leaders met on several occasions.

Sánchez said that would be willing to negotiate a new status of autonomy for Cataloniawhich determines the autonomy of the region. The Madrid executive broke off talks last Friday when Vice President Carmen Calvo said the secessionists would not abandon their demand for a referendum on independence.

Sanchez is trying to gather support for approving national budgets and needs votes from the Catalan independence group of the national parliament to achieve it.

Although he reiterated that he wanted to exhaust the legislature, which will expire in 2020, if budgets do not go through parliamentary procedure, Sánchez could be forced to call early elections.

Joint Manifesto

The manifesto signed by the three parties to the Sunday demonstration in Colón, PP, Cs and Vox, accused Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of "treason" of the country and "stabbing the law and justice" and gave support to Supreme Court (TS) judges who will be charged this Tuesday with the trial against the "lawsuit". Likewise, it requires the immediate calling of elections.

"After months of intolerable missions and a few hours after the Supreme Court began to judge those responsible for the breakdown of the constitutional order that occurred in October 2017, the government of Pedro Sanchez decided to stab the back of the law and to the justice accepting the conditions and the requirements imposed by the president of the Generalitat "denounced the signatories.

And it is that, in the opinion of the summoners of the demonstration, "the events of the last days imply an unprecedented state humiliation in our democratic life".

That is why they reaffirmed, one day after the beginning of the trial "on the badault against the unity of the Spanish nation", their "commitment" to justice, supporting the judges of the TS who will be in charge of the "lawsuit", who suffer from pressure of independence for months ".