Manifest
“For the dignity of Spain: Resign Sánchez, call elections now”
PLAZA DE COLÓN, Madrid
Saturday 10 May 2025
The current democratic and political deterioration we are going through is simply intolerable. We have a government immersed in a process of undermining the constitution, trapped as it is in its own network of concessions and corruption; a government incapable of passing budgets and a hostage to partners whose declared goal is to do away with Spain as a nation. There is no level of government or of state institutions under this Socialist Party government that has not been impacted one way or another by a succession of constitutional wrongs, scandals, manipulations, nepotism and abuses of power that are seriously damaging our country and impoverishing our social harmony.
Democratically taking to the streets and publicly airing the indignation of citizens are not useless acts to let off steam, rather they palpably reflect the state of Spanish public opinion. These public demonstrations show that what is happening in Spain has nothing to do with normal political tussles. Rather, these rallies attest to a spirit of resistance against the abuses of the government, while calling on those who support it to reflect, as well as acting as a wake-up call to those oblivious to the current state of affairs and to mobilise the undecided. These multitudinous shows of discontent make clear to the distant and forever cautious political class in Brussels how Spain is suffering an unprecedented democratic crisis, while also exposing internationally the outright rejection Pedro Sánchez causes among a large part of his fellow citizens. A head of government who has made division among Spanish people the mark of his term of office. Likewise, these rallies serve to boost the morale of those decent people who, despite all the pressures, threats and risks to which they are subject, stand firm in defending the rule of law and freedoms.
That is why we have gathered here today. Citizens from a wide range of political persuasions who wish to make it publicly known that:
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- we refuse to accept the pitiful spectacle of nepotism and corruption to which we are being subject;
- we reject the contempt being shown to parliament, government by decree and parliamentary debate being replaced by shady bargaining;
- we do not accept the worsening of public services, with passengers being left unattended for hours on trains stranded in the middle of nowhere; Barajas airport converted into a shelter for the homeless; or a third-world, nationwide power cut, all of which attest to the state of neglect and dereliction into which our country has fallen;
- we repudiate the immorality of legitimising Bildu and making it a privileged partner in the government of Spain: its party lists contain murderers, people who pay homage to and benefit from its criminal past. That they can serve as political partners is, therefore, unacceptable;
- we reject attacks on the monarchy, that a Criminal Code be drafted to serve elements given to sedition and embezzlement, or a disgraceful amnesty, not to mention the granting of tax privileges that put paid to equality among all Spanish people and that are used as a corrupt currency of exchange to buy votes;
- we refuse to accept that the counterbalances of power be done away with, that critical media be harassed, that judges be hounded, that institutions be colonised by party colleagues and the constitution be abused.
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In short, we are against being turned into a banana republic. And refuse to become a Chávez-like Venezuela. We support the dignity of Spain and defend its constitution. We demand that Pedro Sánchez resign and call a general election to enable the wishes of the Spanish people to be heard and to show that there are millions of us who are determined to save Spain from a process that only offers decadence and arbitrariness and to redirect it to a shared project that is a united and constitutional Spain, home to free and equal citizens.
LONG LIVE THE KING
LONG LIVE THE ONSTITUTION
LONG LIVE SPAIN
