Max Pearson
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 11 Apr
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As the night dragged on, it was hard to establish what was happening outside, whether the military in other regions of Spain were supporting the coup in the capital or not.
In fact, only one area, Valencia, announced a state of emergency.
King Juan Carlos, the head of state, spent the night calling senior military figures around the country to condemn the coup attempt, and at two in the morning, he made this announcement on television.
He was a member of the centre-right party, so he was on the opposite side of the...
of the parliament, but his information was being transmitted one by one by one and arrived to the left side of the parliament.
And, well, at one moment, after the king spoke through the TV and after the information that no other regions had supported the putsch,
And after we knew that the members of the group that invaded the parliament were alone, had not real support in other parts of the armed forces, from this point of view, we received a good relief, good news, because the democracy will not end, but the democrats that were inside the parliament were not still free.
And so this information was being passed one by one by one by one along the rows?
Yeah, because it was not possible to walk inside the room or in some cases with some meetings in the toilets that were the real place to establish a dialogue with others.
I see.
So you found out things when you went to the toilet?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, indeed.
It was the free space for freedom of speech.
The King had rejected the coup, but it wasn't until 11 o'clock the following morning that Colonel Tejero finally surrendered and allowed the MPs to go free.
One of the members of the Pushees took the floor and told us, where in a few minutes you will be allowed to leave this room.
When the final agreement to open the doors was reached, the Speaker of the Parliament told the Guardia Civil, please wait a minute, and he formally closed the session of the Parliament.
And afterwards, we were getting out of this room with two rows of Guardia Civils at our left and at our side.
In the street, I remember a lot of people was waiting for us, a lot of journalists, some relatives of some members of the parliament and a lot of citizens.
This was fantastic.
strong feeling of freedom, of relief and freedom to walk through the streets of Madrid again free and without guns pointing to us.
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