Overview
- Spain’s conservative People’s Party led a mass protest in central Madrid calling for Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to resign and for early elections.
- Attendance was disputed, with organizers claiming about 80,000 participants and the Madrid prefecture estimating roughly 40,000.
- The rally followed the pre-trial detention of former transport minister José Luis Ábalos in a kickbacks-for-contracts investigation.
- Days earlier, Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz resigned after the supreme court convicted him of leaking confidential information.
- Investigations involving Sánchez’s wife and brother continue, as opposition leaders including Alberto Núñez Feijóo used the event to escalate political pressure.