The blimpish People's Party (PP), by contrast, has accused the authorities of attempting to weaponise the onslaught for electoral gain.
PP person Alberto Núñez Feijóo called the wide onslaught "nonsense", calling the unions "mafia" and "trash". Feijoo's enactment is starring successful the polls and enactment spokesperson Miguel Tellado accused the authorities of exploiting the onslaught to pass voters against allowing a right-wing authorities to beryllium formed, which looks the astir apt result of the 29 November election.
Sánchez told Spanish TV this week: "What is nonsense is to question the rights of workers to strike."
Among those taking portion successful the wide onslaught was Gonzalo Álvarez, 27, who was visiting antithetic picket lines successful cardinal Madrid.
Although helium works successful sales, helium has been volunteering for a lodging national that tries to support tenants and makes them alert of their rights.
The eviction of Maricarmen Abascal astatine the extremity of September "was the small fire" that sparked this protest, helium told the BBC.
Álvarez knew the 87-year-old, who had faced a tripling of her rent nether caller landlords, and says helium was profoundly upset by her treatment.
He rents a small, one-bedroom level with his girlfriend, a dental hygienist, successful the city's confederate Arganzuela disrict. The mates wage €1,000 betwixt them, which means each spends astir fractional of their wage connected housing, adjacent earlier different bills.
"It's perfectly crazy… with the food, with the electricity, with the water, with gas."
He sees nary mode of getting connected the spot ladder: "You person to cod an insane magnitude of wealth to beryllium capable to bargain a house. So with these salaries, it's impossible."
With existent rent and acquisition prices, helium believes buying determination is "completely impossible".
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