Demonstrators holding Spanish flags participate in a protest in opposition to Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s authorities in Madrid, Spain on Saturday (Might 23, 2026).
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A small group of protesters tried to interrupt by way of limitations across the residence of Spain’s Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Saturday (Might 23, 2026) throughout a mass rally calling for him to resign after a collection of corruption scandals.
Police detained a bunch of masked individuals on the essential highway approaching Madrid’s Moncloa Palace, the place Mr. Sanchez lives together with his household, photos on Spanish tv confirmed.
Tens of 1000’s of demonstrators carried banners marked with “Resignation of the socialist mafia” and different slogans, alongside scores of Spanish gold and pink flags within the March for Dignity, organised by the Spanish Civil Society affiliation.
Leaders from the opposition Individuals’s Get together and the far-right Vox get together additionally took half within the largely peaceable march.
A Spanish courtroom introduced on Tuesday that former Spanish Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero was being investigated for allegedly main an influence-peddling and money-laundering community, in one other blow to the leftist authorities beset by corruption scandals.
Mr. Zapatero, a key ally of the present Prime Minister, denied any wrongdoing on Tuesday (Might 19).
Organisers stated 80,000 individuals had taken half within the protest, although the Spanish authorities consultant in Madrid put the quantity at about 40,000.
Printed – Might 23, 2026 07:08 pm IST