Youth protests continue across Spain despite election weekend ban

The Supreme Court turns down 11th-hour appeal filed by the United Left against the prohibition; Madrid's Sol square filled by up to 30,000 demonstrators as Valencia, Málaga and Barcelona sit-in numbers swell; government decides not to send in security forces

Protests in Madrid's Puerta del Sol and in more than 150 other cities across Spain continued on Friday and into Saturday morning despite a ruling by the country's electoral board prohibiting any types of demonstrations before Sunday's local and regional elections races.

Deputy Prime Minister Alfredo Rubalcaba did not say on Friday how the law enforcement authorities would act, but suggested to reporters that the police would not dislodge the demonstrators who are camped out in Madrid's Sol square.

"What we are going to do is fulfill the constitutional mandate and the security forces will uphold the laws, and for that reason, we will act in a timely fashion with conformity and proportionality. We don't want to create another problem, or even two or three more," he said.

Earlier on Friday, Zapatero said in a radio interview that the government would act "intelligently" in its dealings with the illegal protests.

In the end, security forces limited their actions after midnight to informing the protest leaders that the sit-ins were now illegal.

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Thanks for the link xavi - excellent and beautiful High res photos!

I reposted that photo-link in the other thread with the cred to you and this thread of yours - hope this is okey with you?

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Just started a thread about fase 2. The violence begins.

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