“I don’t know what exactly has been called but I will be where he PP ask me that it is”. The former president of the Government, José María Aznar, confirmed with those words that he will attend the political event called by the PP next 24th September if Genoa sends him an invitation, as is assumed to happen.
In an interview in ‘Cope’, Aznar once again called, as he did days ago, for the mobilization of Spanish society against a possible amnesty for the Catalan leaders accused in the ‘procés’ as compensation for an investiture of Pedro Sánchez and supported the Génova’s decision to call this political event in the run-up to Alberto Núñez Feijóo attempting his inauguration in Congress. “I am not calling for any mobilization, any act or any rally. “The PP makes its decisions and I totally agree,” said the former president of the Government, denying that his words had forced disrupt the agenda party policy. “They look for loopholes in my relationship with Feijóo and when they don’t find them, because there aren’t any, they invent them,” he added, ensuring that his relationship with the president of the PP “could not be stronger or better.” Aznar denied having recently spoken with Felipe González but defended that his positions fully coincide. “I have not said anything that many other socialist leaders have not said with whom I fully agree in the diagnosis of the situation,” he said, referring to González or Alfonso Guerra.
Last Tuesday, at an event held by the FAES foundation, Aznar asked to go out into the street and shout “Enough is enough” as civil society did against ETA in the face of an amnesty that was considered a process of “national self-destruction” and “dismantling” of the Constitution. Given that call to “stand up” with determination and the “civic energy” of Spanish society, the acting Government considered that Aznar had a “coupist” attitude” and “undemocratic”, demanding Alberto Núñez Feijóo to order a rectification of the former president.
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The PP, far from that, has closed ranks with Aznar’s call until calling a large demonstration on October 24, in the Plaza de España in Madrid, two days before Feijóo presents himself for an investiture in Congress that already the PP considers it failed. Aznar’s warning, which was joined by the president of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, announcing that he will attend the October 8 demonstration in Barcelona called by Catalan Civil Societyhas disrupted the times that the PP was managing, forcing the rejection of the amnesty to be taken to the streets and the investiture to be relegated.
Aznar avoided responding directly to the Government’s accusations, calling it a “coup plotter”, convinced that it is a political maneuver to distract people from talking about the concessions to the independentists to which he is not going to “contribute”. “What ethical and moral stature,” he rebuked, “knowing that not a word has been used, they use it, because that has not been appealed to, they use it as if it had been done,” he noted, denying that he had called for any type of rebellion.