![]() ![]() 12 festivities, in the context of the upcoming (but as yet unscheduled) vote on Sánchez’s re-investiture as prime minister. Sánchez met with the boss of the center-right PP Alberto Núñez Feijóo in the run-up to the Oct. So let’s chat about pre-investiture ill-temperedness, and how Spain’s politicians are griping and sniping as their stake out territory before November’s nail biting vote on Perro Sanxe 2. ![]() ![]() Oh, not at all! They say they’re against the whistling at Sánchez, but add that it happens because Sánchez has been “ lying to the Spanish people for five years. Spain’s right-leaning parties haven’t been trying to make it more comfortable for the PSOE and Sánchez. Ostensibly this is because the Bernabéu is under construction (which it is) but there’s been a lot of speculation on the right that the Sánchez government moved the stand to avoid having to face…unpleasantness. The review stand for the royals and the Sánchez government will be installed near Plaza Neptuno, where it will be far from the crowd, not in its usual place near the Bernabéu Stadium of Real Madrid. The PSOE’s plan to win the seven votes of the Catalan separatist party Junts and return Sánchez to the PM’s office by offering amnesty to those with roles in the illegal/unconstitutional 2017 separatist referendum is especially unpopular with the right-of-center crowd (and some on the center-left too ). This year promises to be especially grumpy, though. Add in Sánchez’s pardons of Catalan separatist leaders and last year you got lots of people in the crowd whistling and booing the PM (see video above) as he arrived after King Felipe VI et al to review the parade. Here’s a simple equation: Military + pijo = not PSOE voters. For one thing, in Madrid it’s centered around a military parade (the air force practice for which makes the city sound like a war zone) and it takes place on and around the Paseo de la Castellana, bordering the pijo (posh) barrio of Salamanca. Spain’s national day is a tough one for Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of the center-left PSOE socialists. 12, 1492, it was called the Día de la Raza (little creepy), then Día de la Hispanidad before becoming Fiesta Nacional de España, thereby admitting that people in former Spanish colonies would just stick with their own monikers, which run from Día del Respeto a la Diversidad Cultural in Argentina to Día de la Resistencia Indígena, Negra y Popular in Nicaragua.īut enough about history. Welcome to October 12, the National Day of Spain ( Fiesta Nacional de España ), not that you’d notice any national unity going on.īegun as a way to celebrate Columbus’s arrival/“discovery” of the Americas on Oct. ![]()
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