More than 50 protests in Spain after an emergency bill failed
More than 50 protests took place across Spain on Saturday over the country's housing crisis, the BBC reports, after the government failed to get emergency legislation through parliament.
The sequencing is the notable part. The demonstrations followed a specific legislative failure rather than an election or a budget fight, and emergency legislation is the instrument a government reaches for when it wants speed. When it doesn't pass, the pressure has somewhere else to go — in this case, by the BBC's count, into more than fifty separate demonstrations in a single day.
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Fifty-plus demonstrations in one day looks less like a single mass rally than a movement organized city by city, at the local level.
Or one national movement coordinating many sites on the same afternoon. The count alone can't tell us which of those it is.