{"id":7086,"date":"2026-05-23T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=7086"},"modified":"2026-05-23T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T15:40:00","slug":"spain-protests-against-pedro-sanchez-attack-outside-his-home-in-madrid-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=7086","title":{"rendered":"Spain: Protests against Pedro Sanchez &#8211; Attack outside his home in Madrid (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tension in Spain with protests against <b>Pedro Sanchez<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>In the massive demonstration, held in <b>Madrid<\/b>, a small group of protesters attempted to break through the railings around his residence. <\/p>\n<p>The demonstration was organised by the <b>People&#8217;s Party<\/b>, <b>PP<\/b> and the <b>far-right Vox<\/b>, claiming that Pedro Sanchez&#8217;s government is &#8220;corrupt&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Spanish police detained a group of people with their faces covered on the main road leading to Madrid&#8217;s Moncloa Palace, where Pedro Sanchez lives with his family, according to footage broadcast on Spanish television. <\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of protesters held banners with slogans such as &#8220;<b>Resign the Socialist Mafia<\/b>&#8221; along with Spanish flags at the March for Dignity, organized by the Spanish Civil Society Association. <\/p>\n<p>Tension arose when a group of protesters attempted to break through the railings and storm the home of the prime minister, <b>Pedro Sanchez<\/b>. <\/p>\n<h3>The political backdrop<\/h3>\n<p>According to the Spanish newspaper, El Pais, the demonstration comes after a series of days in which the confrontation between the PP and Vox centred on the pressure the far-right put on Alberto Nunez Feijo, whom they demanded submit a motion of impeachment. The Popular Party is resisting. <\/p>\n<p>At the start of the march, Abascal announced that his party <b>has asked the courts for Zapatero<\/b> to be taken into custody, as they are now part of the private prosecution in the case, and for several ministers to be called as witnesses. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are already too many innocence cases. Nobody believes that Sanchez is not behind this,&#8221; pointed out the Vox leader, who tried to divert attention from the impeachment issue to avoid &#8220;clouding this demonstration&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>However, he left a hidden message to the People&#8217;s Party. &#8220;<b>Everyone is doing what they can with the means at their disposal<\/b>,&#8221; said <b>Abascal<\/b>, who does not have the minimum number required for his parliamentary group to table its own impeachment motion, as the People&#8217;s Party does. &#8220;It is up to me to go to the courts,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 PEDRO MUST GO- Tens of thousands rallied in Madrid demanding Spanish PM Pedro S\u00e1nchez resign amid mounting corruption scandals tied to his Socialist Party allies.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters carried banners reading &#8220;Resignation of the socialist mafia,&#8221; while opposition leaders from the&#8230; pic.twitter.com\/GK2j2cWLCV<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) May 23, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    Tension in Spain with anti-Pedro Sanchez protests.<\/p>\n<p>    In the massive demonstration, held in Madrid, a small group of protesters &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}