Madrid (EFE).- The Madrid Government Delegation has estimated the number of attendees at the LGBTI+ Pride march held this Saturday in the Madrid capital at 800,000, according to sources from the organization.
However, for the organization of the event, the number of people who have attended the demonstration is practically double, so that, according to their calculations, those gathered reached a million and a half participants.
Demonstrations for LGBTI+ Pride have toured Madrid, Barcelona and Malaga this Saturday
The demonstrations for LGBTI+ Pride that have toured Madrid, Barcelona and Malaga this Saturday have been the most political in recent years, with the general elections on July 23 just around the corner and in full configuration of regional and municipal governments with PP and Vox pacts.
In Madrid, they have asked to “vote with pride” to “recolor the streets with colors and show those who want to return to black and white that there are many more of us.”
The conveners have once again invited government representatives to the head banner to celebrate the approval of the LGTBI and state trans law last February, under the slogan “For our rights, for our lives, with Pride”.
The second vice president, Yolanda Díaz (Sumar) and the Minister of Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera (PSOE), together with the organizers of the march: the president of the FELGTBI+, Uge Sangil, and the president of COGAM, were present at the head of the march. Ronny de la Cruz. The Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, had also been invited, but she preferred to go on the United We Can float.
The march had moments of vindication
The march, which has taken place in its traditional festive atmosphere with floats and music, has had moments of vindication, such as a symbolic stop in front of the town hall to criticize that the rainbow flag is not hanging from the Cibeles façade.
Both the conveners and the government ministers have criticized the pacts between PP and Vox and have expressed their concern about the “threat” posed to the rights of the LGTBI+ collective by the arrival of the ultra-right in regional and municipal governments.
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