Aznar and Rajoy bless Feijóo to correct the “course” of Spain

Alberto Nunez Feijóo managed to bring together this Saturday in Valencia Jose Maria Aznar and Mariano Rajoy in an act of the PP, something that had not happened since 2015. The current leader of the popular has wanted the Photography symbolize the experience that accumulates the party and also the unit: Aznar designated Rajoy as his successor at the beginning of the century, but their relationship deteriorated so much over the years that it ended in a rupture that affected the internal life of the party. Now, Feijóo has wanted to sew those wounds, unite those two souls, and they, although their communication is very scarce, have lent themselves because both, they said, are at the service of the party and, above all, of the new boss. He is, both stressed, the only one who can rescue the citizens of Pedro Sánchez; the only one who can correct the “wrong heading” in which they see Spain, Aznar pointed out.

Almost at half past six in the evening, the head of the conservatives came walking with the two former presidents to the science museum Valencia, where this weekend the party is holding a meeting with mayoral candidates. Between applause and dozens of selfies, the three were advancing up to the stage where they delivered their speeches. It was not a colloquium, as had been announced, but three consecutive rallies. Started the current leader. “In the PP we are all united and now it is time for the next step, which is to unite our country,” said Feijóo, referring to the reconciliation that he wanted to represent by bringing the two together.

The voter who doubts with Vox

Then Aznar took the floor, who began by encouraging the popular to recover autonomous power in the Valencian Community. The former president, other times more condescending to Vox, appealed to right-wing voters who doubt and assured them that Feijóo is the only “exchange guarantee” to beat Sánchez and start “the virtuous cycle that Spain needs”. Aznar ended his speech by asking to look for socialist voters who do not consider it to be “left” to reduce embezzlement or “reward” those who “want to break the nation.”

According to Rajoy, the Spanish are not going to forget that Sánchez is acting this legislature “at orders of the most extremist minorities”. In his opinion, the socialist leader is breaking basic “consensus” and that is why the citizens want “a change.” Feijóo, he stressed, is the only one who can fight against the “Frankenstein Government” and “finish what the monster means”.

The figure of Rita Barberá

The two former presidents had words of remembrance for Rita Barbera, former mayor of the city and removed from the party on suspicion of corruption. In the morning, at a PP debate table, the party issued a tribute video. “We are not perfect, but no one has shown better results when working for this country,” declared Rajoy, who was the one who had to deal with the corruption scandals and made the decision to drop it.

The divorce

The last time that Aznar and Rajoy coincided in a PP act was on January 23, 2015, when the first beat the second, who was his successor, his dauphin, and at that time he governed Moncloa with an absolute majority. That day, at Ifema, Rajoy, sitting in the front row, had to swallow several times while listening to him. “Where is the PP? & rdquor ;, he asked rhetorically several times Aznar complaining about a match he was watching complexed in defending the victims of terrorism and with little “determination & rdquor; in the brake on the Catalan independence movement. That speech marked the break between the two.

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This Saturday, in his speech, Aznar referred to Rajoy on a couple of occasions as a “friend”, although, according to sources close to both leadersthe personal relationship between them is still bad, so Feijóo should be especially grateful that they wanted to participate in this meeting of the PP. Rajoy also made reference to his predecessor, to recall that he got Spain into the euro and “transformed” the country, although he took advantage of that context to vindicate himself for having prevented the exit of the single currency in 2012. Aznar, on the contrary He didn’t treat his ears with anything.

The absence of Married

At this convention in Valencia, there is also much talk about another former president, Pablo Casado, although the comments are due to his absence. Feijóo you have not been invited to the first great party act in which he wanted show internal drive. Deputies and advisers who are still in contact with Casado explain that he has surprised him, although he has made the decision to distance himself from politics. “It won’t have been so bad for the party if they keep as mayoral or presidential people he chose”, points out a senior official in the previous stage. This source recalls that the candidates for the regional elections who have to fight to win presidencies (Maria Guardiolain Extremadura; Jorge Azconin Aragon; Marga Prohens; in the Balearic Islands, or Carlos Mazonin the Valencian Community) were selected and endorsed by Casado.