The rally, organized by conservative and center-right parties, calls for Sanchez to step down over his handling of Catalonia's secession crisis

Our role on the left is not to compete in verbal radicalism or to argue over whether there will be another mass expulsion and whether it will devolve into mass murder; our role is to thwart such a horrific scenario.

Some Democrats are convinced the decision to tie the controversial bill together with motions on aid to Israel and Jordan and sanctions on Syria was designed to spark intra-Democratic fighting