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Explained: Why violence hit Madrid's streets ahead of historic Catalan deal
Laura Llach Thu, Nov 9, 2023
After six days of protests, tensions remain high on the streets of Madrid.
On Tuesday night, around 7,000 people gathered outside the Socialist Party headquarters when the demonstrations turned violent.
Radicals monopolised the front row, throwing bottles and even barriers at police who moved in to disperse the group.
The streets of several Spanish cities have been filled with people opposing negotiations between Spain's acting government and Catalan separatist parties over a possible amnesty for thousands involved in Catalonia's independence movement.
In central Madrid, people chanted "Sánchez, son of a b****" and "Puigdemont to jail", referring to acting prime minister Pedro Sánchez and Catalan independence leader Carles Puigdemont, who is currently in self-imposed exile in Belgium.
A total of ten people were arrested, and health workers treated 39 people, 30 of them police officers.
"Today is historic," said journalist Vito Quiles on his social networks.
"(The amnesty) is humiliating. They didn't take into account the opinion of half the population," two pensioners who took part in the demonstration told El País.
The agreement signed on Thursday between the Socialist Party and Puigdemont's party moves the country away from a de-escalation of tensions, but why are Spaniards so angry with Sánchez?
‘The beginning of the end of democracy’
Madrid's Calle Ferraz, where the Socialist Party headquarters are located, has been the scene of Spanish discontent for days.
Pedro Sánchez, acting prime minister and leader of the Socialists, was negotiating with Catalan separatist parties to secure their support in his bid to form a new government and keep his centre-left coalition in power after an inconclusive national election in July.
But the demands of the Catalan pro-independence parties have not gone down well with the public.
Among the promises that Pedro Sánchez made to these parties was the cancellation of 20% of Catalonia's debt to the state, which amounts to €15 billion.
Following an outcry from the other regions, the Socialist Party assured them the agreement would be extended to the other regional debts.
However, the Junts per Catalunya party - led by Puigdemont - still holds the key to Sánchez's government.
The seven seats they won in the last general election are essential for the Socialists to return to government.
What they are demanding in exchange for these coveted seats is what has most inflamed Spaniards: amnesty for political leaders implicated in Catalonia's independence bid.
"The landscape is very worrying. On the one hand, the investiture negotiations are aberrant. On the other hand, dangerous steps have been taken in the recent protests," Óscar Sánchez-Alonso, professor of politics at the Faculty of Communication of the Pontifical University of Salamanca, told Euronews.
"Alongside those who are legitimately and peacefully expressing their dissatisfaction, there is also a growing concentration of groups willing to use violence, and in some sectors the idea has taken hold that if the law doesn't apply to some, it is logical to break it in other directions,” he added.
The pro-independence parties have stated that "all those who were repressed, without exception" will benefit from the amnesty - a total of 1,432 people, according to calculations by the pro-independence organisation Òmnium Cultural.
It is a decision that has divided Spanish society, with 56.5% of the country against it, according to the latest poll by Simple Lógica, which specialises in public opinion research.
The judges also wanted to have their say. The main association of magistrates has issued a very strong statement against the approval of an amnesty.
“It is the beginning of the end of our democracy,” it said, adding that the amnesty law “is not allowed by the Constitution”.
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