Like Felipe González, the former President of the Government José María Aznar assured this Thursday that "he is not going to remain silent" in the face of what is happening in Spain with the concessions to the separatists, especially with the amnesty, and how he believes that in this situation The only thing that does not fit is "inhibition", he is going to say what he thinks, and he did: "Sánchez is a danger to Spanish constitutional democracy."
At the inauguration of the Master of Political Action of the Institute of Atlantic Studies, together with the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, Aznar stressed that "in Spain too many red lines have already been crossed" in recent years, but now, "we are in a territory of extraordinarily serious constitutional crisis".
The former president explained that this severity comes because "never has a candidate put the Constitution at the service of separatists, former terrorists and those who want to destroy the country," because in his opinion the amnesty "is liquidating the Constitution in Spain."
Aznar is convinced that the amnesty and concessions that the independentists seek and that Sánchez is willing to grant "means consummating what is intended, which is a change of constitutional regime in Spain" and "whoever does that", in this case the acting president, Pedro Sánchez, "is a risk for democracy." And to make it clear he verbalized it: "Candidate Pedro Sánchez is a danger to Spanish institutional democracy."
Hence, he calls on all Spaniards, each in their own area, not to be inhibited, and that "he who can speak, let him speak; he who can do, let him do; he who can contribute, let him contribute; he who can move , To move". He, he assured, feels "very well represented by Alberto Núñez Feijóo" and supports everything he is doing, but "I am not willing to inhibit myself, I am not willing to remain silent and I am not willing to not take risks." "I am not willing," he concluded, "to see, without saying anything, that the Constitution is at risk. I am not going to do it."
Aznar already said more than a month ago that he was against the amnesty and this Thursday he explained why. "There is no place for amnesty," he stressed, first of all "because there are no political prisoners in Spain," and he believes that it has no place "whatever the purpose," he said, in the face of claims by some jurists that it is not constitutional because its purpose is the inauguration of a president. In his opinion, "amnesty never has a place, whatever its purpose or with whatever intention," because it not only erases the sentence but also "the crime disappears," and that is to say that what happened in 2017 "did not happen." ", and that "it was the State" that acted badly.
José María Aznar also made it clear that "Sánchez does what he wants to do" with these transfers. He is convinced that "he is no one's prisoner" and that what is happening now "starts in Tinell and has names and surnames", when "a pact was made to exclude the center-right from governing Spain", and that makes Sánchez " is no longer a constitutional pillar", and the "only constitutional pillar left in Spain is the PP and Alberto Núñez Feijoo".
For his part, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in line with what he has been saying for more than a year, stressed that "the exchange" of the amnesty "does not have a legal endorsement, it is a democratic aberration from a political point of view and a indecency from a moral point of view", and above all it is "the greatest humiliation to Spain in many years of Spanish history".
The president of the PP, who assured that he receives calls from socialists who tell him that "we are with you," emphasized that the amnesty is "an amendment to the entire legislative power, which approved 155; an amendment to the entire the prosecution, which made the accusations, and an amendment to the entire Supreme Court that judged, which has to enforce what was judged" and which will not be able to do so.
Feijóo thanked "all the former presidents", although he clarified, "all but one", in reference to José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, "who have spoken out forcefully", and he appreciates it despite believing that it is what they should do. , "because every president of the Government has a commitment until the end of his days to defend his country." He thanked them, "that they are fighting for democracy, and that," he said, "is a value."
