Hundreds protest in Barcelona during Spain's National Day
October 12 demonstration sees decline in attendance since 2018
Around 500 people, according to Barcelona's local police, demonstrated in the Catalan capital on Spain's National Day organized by the platform Catalunya Suma to celebrate hispanicity.
The protest started in Barcelona's Passeig de Gràcia and finished in Plaça Catalunya under the slogan 'Hispanicity. Past, present and future'.
During the demonstration, protestors chanted against the Spanish PM Pedor Sánchez, the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and claiming Gibraltar as a Spanish territory, among other chants.
The conservative People's Party and the far-right party Vox were present at the protest.
In their speeches, they asked to protect democracy in Spain, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba, as "they are being "trampled".
According to the organizers, there were 10,000 protestors.
Last year's demonstration saw 1,000 protestors according to the local police. During 2017 and 2018 Spain's National Day there were 65,000 protestors.