Some 800 people – according to data from the Government Delegation – gathered this afternoon at the doors of the national headquarters of the Popular Party in Madrid, on Génova Street, calling for the resignation of the president of the Community, Isabel Díaz Ayuso. , for the alleged crimes of his partner and the management of nursing homes during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The protesters gathered around 7:00 p.m. this Wednesday, called by the La Plaza association under the motto ‘My family died, yours got rich’, through social networks. The National Police has had to cut off traffic on Génova Street, heading down towards Colón, and on Zurbano Street, perpendicular to it, when the influx has been growing.
It was around 8:30 p.m. when the National Police moved the protesters who were still on the road to the sidewalk and traffic later returned to normal.
Waving republican flags and carrying signs referring to the deaths of elderly people in nursing homes during the pandemic, they have shouted slogans demanding their resignation: ‘Ayuso resignation’, ‘they are not deaths, they are murders’; ‘your little apartment is a crime’ or ‘don’t worry Married, here is your legacy’.
Likewise, they have charged against the PP chanting ‘Popular Party, criminal party’ or ‘there is Ali Baba’s cave’, pointing to the headquarters of the party led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
They have also warned with the slogan ‘today we are leaving but we will return’, that the rallies will be repeated although, as confirmed by a member of the organizing platform to Europa Press, there are still no new demonstrations officially called.
“We will not stop until Ayuso leaves the Assembly,” the spokesman for La Plaza, Rodrigo, said in statements to the media, explaining that what has united the protesters in front of Génova has been “mainly the political thuggery of people like Miguel Ángel Rodríguez threatening critical journalists”.
Furthermore, he has denounced “the cuts in public health and education” that, in his opinion, are being exercised by the Community of Madrid, ensuring that they will return to the streets.
The Podemos spokesperson Pablo Fernández and the Más Madrid deputy in the Assembly, Hugo Martínez Abarca, also attended the demonstration.
