“We want the country to be rebuilt. We need a national understanding to ensure that the pandemic is not politically exploited,” said UGT union chief Pepe Alvarez, AFP news agency on the sidelines of the Madrid demonstration.
Public services should be improved
Public services need to be improved, Alvarez said. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s government did more for social justice “than all its predecessors” by introducing a minimum wage. Nevertheless, there are still a lot of “hard-suffering” people in Spain, complained the union leader.
Ordinary people shouldn’t pay for crisis
She fears that in the end ordinary people will have to pay for the crisis, said 61-year-old protester Ana Sanchez de la Cueva. “There are two reasons why we are here: to demand a serious economic recovery, so that we can all get out of this crisis with dignity, and to advocate strengthening public services.”
Corona crisis: Spain with strict curfew
Because of the Corona pandemic, the Spanish government declared a state of emergency in mid-March and imposed the sharpest Corona curfew in Europe. Nationwide, almost 250,000 people have been tested positive for the novel corona virus since the pandemic began, and more than 28,000 people died.
(Those: Apa / Ag.)
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