At Least 100,000 March In Madrid In Show Of Strength For Spain's Rising Leftist Party
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Source: Associated Press
MADRID — At least 100,000 people marched through Madrid on Saturday in a show of strength by a fledgling radical leftist party, which hopes to emulate the success of Greece's Syriza party in the Spanish general election later this year.
Podemos supporters from across Spain converged around the Cibeles fountain Saturday before packing the avenue leading to Puerta del Sol square in what was the party's largest rally to date.
Police said at least 100,000 people participated in the march while Podemos put the figure at 300,000.
Podemos ("We Can"
aims to shatter the country's predominantly two-party system and the "March for Change" gathered crowds in the same place where sit-in protests against political and financial corruption laid the party's foundations in 2011.
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