Two decades after José María Aznar left the palace of Moncloa, he continues to influence his party even though the different presidents of the PP have tried to freeze him in history. His rejection of the amnesty that the current Spanish Government would be negotiating, in order to obtain the seven decisive votes of Junts, has not been just another opinion, but has become the sound of the bugle to launch a citizen's revolt . The verbal reaction of the Executive has been disproportionate, knowing that Aznar intends to be the voice of the oracle of the PP. What he said at the FAES was similar in substance (not in form) to what Felipe González and Alfonso Guerra had proclaimed the previous week, but in Moncloa no one got nervous then. Isabel Díaz Ayuso was the first popular politician to publicly applaud them.
Aznar must have read Shakespeare when he makes Hamlet say that he could be locked in a nut shell and feel like king of an infinite space. Which is a way of making it clear that power does not respond so much to positions, as to faith in oneself. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who does not move at ease in noise and catches cold in the galley, is not against mobilizing people against an amnesty, but it is clear that Aznar's reflections were not the result of a strategy shared with the leadership of the PP. Feijóo does not want to repeat the photo of Plaça de Colón, that protest against Sánchez that united PP, Vox and Cs four years ago, but which ended up having an electoral cost.
The popular leadership prefers that it is civil society that mobilizes and does not wish to stand in front of the demonstration. Génova is also reminded that the image of Mariano Rajoy collecting signatures against the Statute distanced them from moderate Catalanism, and until today.
The former president cannot stand being a Chinese vase. At all costs, he would agree to get out of one of them like Tintin in The Blue Lotus. The radicality of his words comparing the current situation with that caused by terrorism is a problem for the PSOE, but I would swear that it is also for the PP. It's one thing to set the pace and another for the party to stumble with its martiality.
