MADRID: Thousands of people marched through the streets of Madrid on Saturday calling for Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to resign over allegations of corruption within his entourage.
Demonstrators, many waving red and yellow Spanish flags and brandishing signs saying “Enough!,” made their way through the streets of Madrid behind a large banner that read: “Corruption has a price. No more impunity. Resignation and elections now.”
The protest was called by a group of over 150 civic associations called Sociedad Civil Espanola and backed by the mainstream conservative Popular Party (PP) and far-right Vox.
Organizers put attendance at 80,000.
The central government’s delegate to the region estimated that half that many people had turned out for the march, which ended in Plaza Moncloa near Sanchez’s official residence.
