Through the big door. This is how the former President of the Government, José María Aznar, has inaugurated the electoral campaign of the Popular Party in the Region of Murcia. Cartagena has been the chosen place and the location is a restaurant with a paradisiacal surname. There, the popular have claimed his legacy as "the best president in the democratic history of Spain" and he, as former leader of the executive, has left a warning in the face of the upcoming elections on November 29 and the consequences that a revalidation of the progressive coalition would have: "The next step of the Government will be to end the constitutional system."
The former president of the Government has not given rise to doubts. Speak clearly. In fact, this was highlighted this Friday as soon as he began his speech. Because for Aznar, in the next elections, there is no mere alternation between a center-right or a center-left. "That's not going to be voted on." "The current Government is the result of a coalition that was born because the Executive was bought and the product of an amnesty for those who organized a coup d'état against the Spanish." "That is today's Government," he stressed.
A progressive Executive that, he said, "will recognize in Spain as many nations as separatist parties have to vote for it" and that will turn the country into a "confederation of nations" if it achieves victory again at the polls. "We are not facing a game of chess or facing any election, but if we want to preserve the board to be able to play, and if we want to continue the life of the constitutional system to live together in peace, in progress and with stability," he stated.
The challenge will, therefore, be to "rebuild" the State. And for that, Aznar has offered the recipe: it will take a "strong" and "as supported as possible" Government that, in the first months, can confront "the tensions of the Catalan separatists, the former Bildu terrorists, the extreme left - as they have been rehearsing these days - and the invasions that we may have in the south", in clear reference to Morocco and the crisis experienced in Ceuta.
Feijóo, he said, will be forced to "act from day one" with the aim of strengthening a State that "has been dislocated." A country that, in his opinion, has suffered three major collapses in recent times: Adamuz, Urda and an "invasion of territorial integrity" which, he added, "continues" and in which the Government that has suffered it "has agreed with the invaders."
There has also been no lack of allusions to the National Hydrological Plan, which he left on the table in La Moncloa and which he wanted to claim in a land where the Tajo-Segura transfer is at risk. "Sharing water makes a country and a nation," he said. A national pact that is a "proof of common objective" against a policy of "rampant corruption" with European funds for masks or with railway works. "I came by car, nothing happens. By car I know when I leave and when I arrive in Cartagena, if I come for something else, I don't know if I leave and I still don't know if I arrive," he stated.
"That is a tragedy because we have all seen how the infrastructure grew, not for a group of incompetent people to waste it. In Spain there are not some politicians who have become criminals, it is that there was a gang of criminals who took over the Government of Spain."
Aznar has also criticized the "ridiculous leaps" and the t-shirts that have featured in Pedro Sánchez's campaign. "You could put a few: 'The force of plagiarism', to explain how a thesis is plagiarized; 'The force of the trap', to talk about how votes are changed to be general secretary of a party or 'the force of the brothel.'
"I trust Alberto Núñez Feijóo, I know him. I know your capabilities. Spain needs a responsible, serious person, with capacity, commitment and with learned leadership tasks. He will have a great responsibility and we have the responsibility to help him," he concluded.
The shower of praise for the former president came, above all, from the regional president, Fernando López Miras, who has confessed that "he could never vote for him" as a result of his youth - something that Aznar "does not forgive him" and that he was the reason why he joined the party and has subsequently become president of the Region of Murcia. "I'm certainly a little nervous, I hope he doesn't notice me (...), because I'm sharing the stage with the most important politician in my life," the Murcian baron admitted.
For the regional leader, Aznar is "the greatest example" to follow, after eight years of socialism where families, he said, "live increasingly worse." "We have the person who gives credibility and guarantees that what we are saying, we can do, because we already did it once. There was a man who achieved it. He did it and he gives us arguments," he added.
López Miras has vindicated the former president's management of water and has asked to take it "to where the sun is" and manage this natural resource as a "state policy." "The transfer is not touched. It will not be touched if the PP governs and with Feijoó as president the transfer will not be cut", as Pedro Sánchez "promised" at a rally in Albacete in 2018. "It is going to be a bad dream."
