Spanish conservatives criticise the coalition government and amnesty for Carles Puigdemont, urging for a decisive victory in the European Parliament to prompt early elections in Spain.
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00:00 The Popular Party launched its election campaign in Madrid with a show of strength.
00:06 Thousands of people gathered at the Puerta de Alcalá to show their discontent of the
00:11 amnesty law, expected to be approved in Congress this Thursday.
00:15 "We have come to claim the equality of all Spaniards, the primacy of the constitution."
00:23 The leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez-Ferro, took the opportunity to call for an early general
00:29 election.
00:30 "Since this legislature is lost, and this government has the country standing, it is
00:36 of no use to put an end to it."
00:41 Ferro encouraged citizens to express their rejection and rebel against the Spanish Prime
00:47 Minister Pedro Sánchez's government at the polls.
00:51 "They want to make us servants. The president of the government is not the master of anything,
00:59 he is a public servant."
01:00 The leader of the Popular Party presented the European elections as a referendum against
01:06 Sánchez.
01:07 "Alberto Núñez said that the leader of the PP measures his strength in the streets against
01:12 the policies of President Pedro Sánchez, especially after the recent electoral results
01:17 in Catalonia, which the president of the government considers a validation of his strategy
01:21 towards sovereignism.
01:22 The popular party hopes that in these elections the Spaniards send a clear message that in
01:28 the country has occurred a change of cycle.
01:30 In Madrid, Jaime Velázquez, Euronews.
01:33 (laughing)