The former president of the Government accuses Sánchez of having generated “the greatest stage of polarization” that he remembers, and once again claims 155 as the tool that truly “pacified” the situation: “They saw that there was an instrument that put them in their place”
The former president of the Government, Mariano Rajoyaccused recently re-elected tenant of the Moncloa, Pedro Sánchez, having caused “the greatest stage of polarization” that remembers in Spain. With a very harsh intervention at a breakfast in Madrid where he went to introduce Alfonso Rueda, current president of the a deliberate plan to undermine the independence of justice in Spain”.
The former president of the PP, also in the presence of Alberto Núñez Feijóo among the guests, assured that “Sanchez’s partners have made explicit their blackmail, which is amnesty and self-determination,” and defended the unconstitutionality of the amnesty law, “which in its “Its own exposition of reasons insists on justifying that it is constitutional.” “I had never seen that legal technique. They do it because they know that it is not like that,” said the former Galician leader.
For Rajoy, the agreements that gave way to Sánchez’s successful investiture “are an intellectual and moral disqualification of Spanish democracy,” and he expressed his concern especially that it will be in Brussels “where control is done.” of the government.
What the former president did say is that “there is nothing to object to the decision of the parliamentary majority,” insisting on the idea of “legitimacy.” which the PP does express, unlike Vox. But, right after, he added: “What Sánchez now has to do is govern for everyone, not for his majority. And this is not going to be like that. A rectification would be appropriate.”
Defense of article 155
As he has done on other occasions, Rajoy defended the application of article 155 in Catalonia when he was President of the Government in 2017, and also supported Pedro Sánchez’s PSOE. And, against what the Socialist Executive now defends, as reflected in the agreements with Junts and ERC, Rajoy once again defended that “the stage of pacification in Catalonia did not come through dialogue, but through applying the law.”
“No one tried to liquidate the law again, because they knew that there was an instrument, as they saw, that could put them in their place,” said the former president.
“We send a clear message that when democracy is attacked, if there is a serious Government in charge, democracy defends itself. Now the opposite message is being broadcast and those who intend to liquidate the Constitution are given wings,” he concluded.