The former president of the government José María Aznar has encouraged the PP to maintain "the appeal to the civic energy of the Spanish people" to confront what he has considered a "declaration of war" by the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, after revalidating his Government.
The former leader of the PP has regretted that the president has “raised a wall against half of Spain, against 11 million Spaniards”, and has assured that the amnesty law is “a project of constitutional deconstruction” and an “attack against the rule of law.” ”, in an interview on Antena 3.
“Spain is going through a very critical moment, the most critical since the coup d'état of '81,” the former president stressed, after describing Sánchez's associates as “communists,” “former terrorists,” “convicted of a coup d'état” and “ escaped from justice”, in reference to Arnaldo Otegi, Oriol Junqueras and Carles Puigdemont. Aznar has criticized the pact between Sánchez and the pro-independence forces, and has assured that "the PSOE is neither a prisoner nor subject to blackmail, it is what it has chosen."
In the same sense, the former president has described the figure of the verifier at the PSOE and Junts meeting in Switzerland as "total nonsense", with an "intermediary from El Salvador" who is a "specialist in the FARC" and in "guerrillas". “How is it possible, without losing shame, without losing dignity and without losing the respect that all Spanish citizens deserve, to clandestinely go to negotiate with a fugitive from justice and with an international Salvadoran intermediary in a country?” censored the former popular leader, within the framework of the negotiations between the PSOE and Junts.
The former president has established that "the amnesty is not 'I forgive the crimes you have committed' but rather 'I apologize to you for the actions taken by the authorities to contain the coup d'état'", and has attacked the issue of lawfare, which, in his opinion, is “an approach to what happens in some South American countries in which the law is called into question.”
Aznar has also described Sánchez's approach to the conflict in the Middle East as a "gross diplomatic error for which we are going to pay dearly", and has described the president's international actions as "stomach-inducing" after ensuring that the PSOE leader has also "insulted Milei ” in not calling the Argentine president to congratulate him on his victory in the elections..
The former leader of the PP has also responded to the statements of José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero about the amnesty; "It is one thing to be a former president and another to be an influencer, and some are influencers but not former presidents," Aznar said.
Finally, the former president has also joked about the book that Sánchez publishes; “I was president and I didn't have time to write any books, I wrote them later,” he stressed, after ensuring that he has no interest “in following the changes of opinion, which were previously called falsehoods or lies,” according to the former popular leader. .
