In Spain, thousands of people took to streets demanding the resignation of the government

In the Spanish capital of Madrid on Sunday, June 8, tens of thousands of people took to streets demanding a resignation of the government, headed by Pedro Sanchez and early parliamentary elections.

About it reports The Guardianinforms « European Truth ».

The Sunday protest, organized by the Opposition Conservative People’s Party under the slogan « Mafia or Democracy », raised from 45 to 50 thousand people. The organizers estimate the number of participants in 100 thousand people.

Over the last year, the Sanchev government and its immediate surroundings have encountered a number of accusations of corruption.

Pressure on the Spanish Socialist Labor Party (PSOE) has intensified in recent days after a former party member accused of trying to deploy a discrediting campaign Head of the UCO Economic Crime Division, which investigates the Prime Minister’s wife’s case Begoni Gomezhis brother David Sanchez and former transport minister Jose Luis Abales.

Sanchez himself accused his political and media opponents in conducting « persecution and intimidation operations » against him and his wife, claiming that false accusations against her are intended to cause his « personal and political collapse. »

The protesters came to the action with posters with the inscriptions « Sanchez – Traitor » and « Government, resign », and the leader of the People’s Party Alberto Nunes Feihoo again called for early elections.

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« Spain needs a revolution of decency and freedom – and we will lead this revolution on the streets and at polling stations, » he said before the crowd.

Recall that Sanchez’s wife is accused of trading and corruption while working at the IE Africa Center’s educational center. It is claimed that she allegedly contributed to the receipt of government subsidies to several companies she worked with.

More about the accusations and the way they caused the political crisis in Spain, Read in the archival text of Eurocree.

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