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(16 Nov 2023)
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Madrid - 16 November 2023
1. Various of a pair of supporters of Pedro Sánchez's government arguing with far-right protesters outside the Spanish parliament
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Estanisla Martinez, artist:
"I have said peace, no discrimination, no ignorance, no racism, and they have taken the paper away from me."
3. Various of people pushing police fences and chanting in Spanish "traitor"
4. Various of people holding banners, reading (Spanish) "Amnesty No", "Pedro Sánchez, traitor" and the Spanish flag
5. Wide of a bus carrying a big banner, reading (English) "Sánchez, dictator"
6. Various of protester Ana Duchat
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ana Duchat, protestor:
"We have to take to the streets now. It doesn't matter the ideology, everyone has to take the streets and to face the worst president that Spain has ever had. (Sánchez), he is a liar. He has lied to his voters. Where are the PSOE (Socialist party) voters? (Sánchez) has not lied to me because I have not voted for the PSOE and I will never vote for it in my life, but where are the PSOE voters? They have lied to you in your face."
8. Mid of protester Jorge Perez talking with colleagues
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge Perez, student:
"Well, I think that Pedro Sánchez is not going to last (as President) for more than a year, because I think that he is going to be rejected after the next elections in the Basque Country. I hope (his government) ends now, because it is unacceptable."
10. Banner reading (Spanish) "Pedro, Judas, traitor"
11. Tilt up from a dog dressed in Spanish flag up to two women holding Spanish flag
12. Various of police
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of protesters gathered around the Spanish parliament in Madrid to denounce a controversial amnesty agreement for Catalonia’s separatists and the country's acting Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.

Sánchez was reelected by a majority of legislators in a parliamentary vote Thursday, allowing him to form a new minority leftist coalition government.

He was backed by 179 lawmakers in the 350-seat lower house of parliament.

Only right-wing opposition deputies voted against him.

The vote came after nearly two days of debate among party leaders that centered almost entirely on a highly controversial amnesty deal for Catalonia’s separatists that Sánchez agreed to in return for vital support to get elected prime minister again.

"We have to take to the streets now. It doesn't matter the ideology, everyone has to take the streets and to face the worst president that Spain has ever had. (Pedro Sánchez), he is a liar. He has lied to his voters," said protestor Jorge Perez.

Sánchez won the vote after clinching the support of six smaller parties — including two Catalan separatist parties — in recent weeks, allowing him to achieve the majority of lawmakers needed to be reelected and form another minority coalition government with the left-wing Sumar (Joining Forces) party.

AP video shot by Irene Yague Herrero

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