A tricky one

Cassandra Nash

TENS of thousands protested in the centre of Madrid on January 21, demanding the resignation of the president of Spain’s PSOE­Unidas Podemos government, Pedro Sanchez.

Supporters and voters of the Partido Popular (PP), virtually extinct Ciudadanos, and far­right Vox were there to voice support for ‘Spain, the Constitution and Democracy’.

According to the organisers, half a million protesters poured into Plaza de Cibeles. The central government’s delegation to the Madrid region put the number closer to 31,000, but either way a very large number of people were crammed into a plaza more often associated with tumultuous Real Madrid victory celebrations.

Sanchez was visiting Valladolid, capital of the Castilla y Leon region, at the time. This gave him the opportunity of declaring that anyone wondering what life would be like under a hypothetical PPVox coalition need look no further than Castilla y Leon where the PP governs thanks to Vox, whose votes were re ­