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Around 45,000 Spaniards took part in a demonstration organized by the right-wing parties in Madrid on Sunday to demand the resignation of President Pedro Sánchez and demand early elections. The Socialist leader is accused of having yielded to the demands of the independence of Catalonia.
The leaders of the conservative Popular Party (PP), Pablo Casado, citizens (liberals) Albert Rivera and the president of the ultra-right Vox, Santiago Abascal, were photographed for the first time together on the square of Colón during the event. according to the newspaper El País.
"The time of Sánchez is over, there is no more socialist capitulation or blackmail on independence.
Negotiations with Catalonia
The Socialist leader came to power in June 2018 with the promise to alleviate tensions between the central government of Madrid and the Catalan leaders.He met twice with the president of the regional government, Quim Torra, and the members of the two leaders met on several occasions.
The proposal made by the Socialist Government on Tuesday (5) to appoint a rapporteur to mediate the negotiations between the political parties and deal with of the independence movement in Catalonia has reinforced the opposition, accusing this measure of being a betrayal and a concession to the Catalan separatist leaders.
According to the Associated Press agency, Mr Sánchez s'. is said to be willing to negotiate a new status of autonomy for Catalonia, which determines the autonomy of the region.
However, Sánchez interrupted negotiations to sell edi (8), when Vice President Carmen Calvo said the separatists would not abandon their request for a referendum on independence.
The protest against the Socialist takes place in the week in which 12 leaders of the movement who declared unilaterally the independence of Catalonia in 2017 will be brought to justice. The prosecution requested up to 25 years in prison against the accused who was behind the facts. by the regional executive and the parliament.
Sánchez inherited the Catalan crisis from his predecessor at the Moncloa Palace, Mariano Rajoy, considered incapable of containing the rise of the Catalan separatist movement. Rajoy left office in June 2018 after being the subject of a motion of censure. Pedro Sánchez, president of Spain, in a file image – Photo: Javier Barbancho / Reuters "src =" data: image / jpeg; base64, / 9j / 4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD / 2wBDAAMCAgMCAgMDAwMEAwMEBQgFBQQEBQoHBwYIDAoMDAsKCwsNDhIQDQ4RDgsLEBYQERMUFRUVDA8XGBYUGBIUFRT / 2wBDAQMEBAUEBQkFBQkUDQsNFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBT / wgARCAARABkDASIAAhEBAxEB / 8QAGQAAAgMBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAcEBQgG / 8QAFwEBAQEBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAgMAAf / CXP aAAwDAQACEAMQAAABYtAveSb0ZVK5t6WfIYF2z + // EAB0QAAEEAwEBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUAAgMEAQYyEzX / 2gAIAQEAAQUCIFGxizkLnX7DcLxwtmKYnHUyEw6npc76hNHeDHQf7C xAAcEQACAgIDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQIDESExM3H // / // 2gAIAQMBAT8By4Wy1lI4LOyXoz xAAaEQACAwEBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABEQACAxBD / 9oACAECAQE / AVXTChaJjE86c // EACgQAAECBAUCBwAAAAAAAAAAAAECAwAEESEQEjFRcwXRMjNSYZGSsv / aAAgBAQAGPwKRmK epnT3pWGSHFtKT4aLNr7d4JpbcYSLbJSlDTSnBemhywt152pnPWSVaFOY + / + // aJ3prq8wSkKSM1Rbb5wZ4h zDXAiE8XbD xAAfEAEAAQMEAwAAAAA AAAAAAAABEQAQITFhkaFBUbH / 2gAIAQEAAT8hebMCWol0mmRCCIPJUMMm7A1GQ8TNoU7p4oUb6xTBcuCBCzaM KWRPmkRnYlJfV2c + + m + Wf // aAAwDAQACAAMAAAAQBfD + / 8QAHBEBAAIBBQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQARITGRobHB / 9oACAEDAQE / ECr5gp29I2kTJOW7mpn / xAAcEQEAAgIDAQAAAAAAAAAAAAABABExUSFxkaH / 2gAIAQIBAT8Qp + pt2aPBjkHiPwhg6J // xAAdEAEBAAICAwEAAAAAAAAAAAABEQAxIUEQUWHw / 9oACAEBAAE / EHdIDyBitpF4VkoH5REIKB6JcBzgEexpLs5NZ8sTO4AoY wqB0L1gAzQGz41SFtG63IRURIQeIbxNHrPs8DPw + / Z XLR // "/> 
Pedro Sánchez, president of Spain, in image file Photo: Javier Barbancho / Reuters
The political crisis involving Madrid and Catalonia was triggered after a referendum deemed illegal by the government and the Supreme Court Spanish. During this popular consultation of October 2017, 90% of voters were in favor of independence (2 million people, or 43% of the Catalan electorate).
The president of the Catalan region, Carles Puigdemont, told the local parliament that the region "had obtained the right to be independent".
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