In San Francisco Square, Quiles delivered a rallying speech to the young people who had gathered to hear him, attacking Pedro Sánchez’s government. During his remarks, he also urged attendees to go to the polls in the next general election on November 29, as part of his Tour Combativos II, under the slogan Mafia or Homeland.
Tensions did not end with his speech. After it concluded, a man spat at Vito Quiles in a new incident during an afternoon marked by protests and a heavy police presence. From early afternoon, officers from the Police Intervention Unit (UIP) had established a security cordon in front of the historic entrance to the Faculty of Law, while a helicopter and drones monitored the area.
After leaving San Francisco Square, Quiles continued moving through different parts of Zaragoza, followed by numerous young people, both men and women, who accompanied him around the city. The event went ahead despite the University of Zaragoza’s refusal to host it on its premises, a decision the institution had justified by the need to preserve the neutrality of its spaces ahead of the upcoming elections.
