Thousands gathered in Madrid on Sunday as PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Madrid president Isabel Díaz Ayuso demanded early elections from Pedro Sánchez's government over corruption scandals. Both suggested Sánchez could end up in prison after former associates Koldo, Cerdán, and Ábalos. The rally at the Templo de Debod drew about 40,000 people according to the Government Delegation and up to 80,000 according to the PP.
PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo gathered thousands at Madrid's Templo de Debod to call for early elections amid corruption scandals engulfing the government and PSOE. Alongside Madrid president Isabel Díaz Ayuso and mayor José Luis Martínez Almeida, Feijóo decried the executive's impunity and lies. "Spain does not deserve one more day of abuse, lies, impunity, corruption. Not one more day of this Government", Feijóo stated. "They have lost their shame, but Spain has not lost its dignity. Enough of them taxing you to death while they share out 500-euro bills".
Feijóo referenced the cases of Koldo García, José Luis Ábalos, and Santos Cerdán, ironizing about the latter as "super Santos Cerdán". "Four got into that car to reach power, and three already know prison. The 'one' is missing, the president of the Government", he said, alluding to Sánchez being next. He addressed the PSOE asking how far they would go and urged Vox to show maturity to avoid past mistakes. He also appealed to independentist and nationalist parties, criticizing their support for the government for self-interest, and specifically called Bildu moral allies of the "criminals".
Ayuso, speaking before Feijóo, adopted her chief of staff Miguel Ángel Rodríguez's argument to say Sánchez will end up "where he deserves, in jail". She criticized the government's origins in a false no-confidence motion against Rajoy, orchestrated by Ábalos, and its reliance on Bildu, which she said whitewashes ETA. She attacked pension and civil servant salary increases as a "buying of wills" and accused businessmen, journalists, and pundits of benefiting from the regime. "You won't break because you have no dignity. Everyone benefits", she asserted.
Almeida, in a humorous tone, compared Sánchez's primaries to a police van and predicted the government was born from a deal with Otegi and would die at the ballot box. The event ignored Feijóo's recent request to the Catalan business association to convince Junts and ERC to back a no-confidence motion, rejected by those parties.
Meanwhile, Revuelta, a far-right youth group linked to Vox, called a protest outside PSOE headquarters in Ferraz, but only drew dozens, with insults toward the president and one arrest according to the Government Delegation.