2023–2024 Spanish protests
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The 2023–2024 Spanish protests were a series of protests which began in October 2023, resulting from the announced negotiations of then-acting prime minister Pedro Sánchez's Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) with former president of the Government of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont's Together for Catalonia (Junts) party. These negotiations were aimed at forming a governing coalition after the 2023 Spanish general election.[1][2]
2023–2024 Spanish protests | |||
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Part of 2023 Spanish government formation | |||
Date | 29 October 2023–February 2024 (6 months, 3 weeks and 1 day) | ||
Location | Spain | ||
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Methods | Protests, demonstrations, civil disobedience, civil disorder (rioting, vandalism) | ||
Status | Failed
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Alberto Núñez Feijóo's People's Party (PP), failed to form a government as they could not muster enough support to reach a parliamentary majority. After Feijóo failed in his investiture vote, King Felipe VI tasked Sánchez with forming a government.[3] The distribution of seats, after the election resulted in Sánchez being required to rely on Junts (with seven seats in Congress at the time) to vote in his favor to be able to form a government.[4][5] Junts had not supported him in the formation of previous governments, having voted against him in his July 2019 and January 2020 investiture votes.[6][7]
The starting position of Junts and Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) in negotiations were the amnesty of all participants in the 2017 Catalan independence referendum, and the possibility of holding a new referendum. Catalan Civil Society (SCC), a group opposed to Catalan independence, called a demonstration for 8 October, in response to a potential amnesty.[8] On 28 October Sánchez discussed the amnesty proposal at a PSOE Federal Committee, as part of government formation negotiations.[9][10] Following the investment of Sanchez's government in the middle of November, the protests against Catalan amnesty declined by late February, having failed to achieve their objectives.