The 50th anniversary of Francisco Franco's death is coming up to encourage demonstrations with Francoist symbols and chantsIt is a phenomenon that has become recurrent and, each time it occurs, highlights the authorities' inability to prevent such scenes. This is precisely what happened with the demonstration called by the Spanish Falange the day after November 20th in Madrid. The protest ended in front of the PSOE headquarters on Ferraz Street, producing images that "absolutely clash with the defense of democracy," as the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, stated a few days later. The Spanish government delegation in Madrid tried to prohibit this protest, arguing that it posed a "real and objectively verifiable risk of public disorder" as well as the dissemination of hate speech and the humiliation of victims of Francoism, which are prohibited by the Democratic Memory Law. However, the High Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM) overturned this claim and authorized the demonstration, arguing that the right to assembly cannot be limited preventively and that, if necessary, action should be taken after the fact.

A T-shirt with the fascist slogan "God, country, and family" and legs wrapped in a Spanish flag with the pre-constitutional eagle. This is the clothing worn by one of the protesters this Friday on Ferraz Street in Madrid, where the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) is based, in the protest against Pedro Sánchez. He appeared to be no more than twenty years old. Dozens of small groups of young people, some clearly underage, responded to the far-right's call on social media to demand the resignation of the Spanish prime minister. These young people were the ones who sang Francoist chants with the greatest fervor and repeatedly raised their arms in the fascist salute. This phenomenon is not exclusive to the Ferraz protests, which have been reactivated. for the Santos Cerdán caseSimilar scenes have occurred in recent months on the streets of the Spanish capital during protests. of the neo-Nazi group Núcleo Nacional and of the Spanish Phalanx and the JONS.