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Spain: Flags derived from the national flag

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Spanish flag with a hole - Images located by David Montón Farrioli and Esteban Rivera, 15 November 2023

There are currently anti-government demonstrations in Spain (Europe). I have seen on TV several flags with the coat of arms cut out as happened during the fall of the communist governments of Eastern Europe (in Romania for example). I have also seen flags on TV with the shield crossed out with black adhesive tape. In the demonstrations against the government I have also seen the old Spanish flag of the cross of Burgundy, origin of the flag of the state of Florida. Another surprise has been a Spanish flag with the Heart of Jesus with a cross on top and flags with intertwined letters that I have not been able to identify.

David Montón Farrioli, 15 November 2023

Example of flag with a hole in video at the 32-34 second mark.

Zachary Harden, 15 November 2023

A series of protests has begun in October 2023, resulting from the announced negotiations of acting prime minister Pedro Sánchez's Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) with former president of the Government of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont's Together for Catalonia (Junts) party. These negotiations were aimed at re-electing Sánchez as prime minister following the 2023 Spanish general election.
"The protesters contest the acting prime minister Pedro Sanchez's plans to grant amnesty to Catalan separatists in exchange for support for another term in office. The government secured a deal with Catalan separatist party Junts on Thursday which includes passing a contentious law granting amnesty to those convicted over Catalonia's attempt to secede from Spain in 2017."
Many held Spanish and EU flags, as well as banners with slogans including "respect the Constitution".
(source: Reuters - Tens of thousands protest across Spain at proposed Catalan amnesty)

About the flags with a hole, see this page: [larazon.es]
Some users of these flags have stated on social networks that it would be a way to show "the rejection of the harmful drift for the nation that the Spanish democratic regime of 1978 is experiencing with this decision promoted by the PSOE, which at the time was one of the parties that promoted the current Constitution and the pact between democrats that constituted the Transition".
Some other users pointed out their intention to strip the shield, which designates the State, that is, the politicians and their institutions, from the flag, which is the symbol of the nation: a symbolic act of protest against the representatives of the institutions.

Olivier Touzeau, 15 November 2023