Thousands of people gathered this Sunday around the Temple of Debod, in Madrid, to participate in a demonstration, called by the Popular Party (PP), against the government, days after the former socialist minister José Luis Ábalos and his former advisor Koldo García were remanded in custody as part of the judicial investigation into the alleged corrupt scheme to buy masks during the pandemic.
Under the slogan 'Effectively: mafia or democracy?', the main opposition leaders charged against the government of Pedro Sánchez, whom they accused of having allowed, they say, an "unprecedented" institutional deterioration. The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, said during his speech that what happened with Ábalos "is not a one-off mistake", and affirmed that "Sanchezism is political, economic, institutional, social and moral corruption", before demanding that he "leave the government".
