Thousands Protest Against Spain s Pardons for Jailed Catalan Leaders
Opposition lawmakers from the conservative People s Party (PP), the far-right Vox party and the centrist Ciudadanos joined the rally in Madrid s central Plaza Colon.
People demonstrate against a plan by the Spanish government to concede pardon to the Catalan politicians who promoted a failed independence declaration of the region in 2017, at Colon Square in Madrid, Spain, June 13, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Javier Barbancho
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Madrid: Tens of thousands of Spaniards protested in Madrid on Sunday against government plans to pardon 12 Catalan politicians who were convicted over the region’s failed independence bid in 2017, a move the demonstrators see as a threat to national unity.