"Can you imagine a country whose government is going to depend on those who want to end the country? Well, that's what is happening in Spain right now." This is how the former president José María Aznar summarizes the governance crisis.

In an interview published yesterday by The Wall Street Journal , the former leader of the PP says that "the Government of Spain and the institutions have to face the attempted secession in Catalonia ."

But, in his opinion, "the result of the elections is not the most desirable to do so, and if the Government is a radical leftist with the support or consent of independence, it will be impossible" and "will have serious institutional and economic consequences."

Is Spain facing an endless cycle of political and parliamentary stagnation? The American newspaper asks Aznar. "With the result of these elections there were only two possible formulas of government: either a coalition of constitutionalist parties -which would have been desirable-, or a Frankenstein formula of radical and communist socialists with the complicity of the independentists. It seems that the latter is the formula chosen "by Pedro Sánchez, he answers.

Regarding this predilection for the constitutional pact, Aznar responds to the synchronicity of what he would do if he were the leader of the PP. For the president of the Faes Foundation, Pablo Casado "knows very well what he has to do", which is "strengthen constitutional positions", "strengthen the Spanish nation" and "make the necessary economic reforms". That would be, in his opinion, "the most convenient for Spain."

Aznar does not enter the debate on the possible "patriotic" abstention of the popular , but he makes clear his predilection for the pact with the PSOE and that the fault of not occurring is Sanchez: "It is already known that some politicians are specialists in making the most desirable something almost impossible. "

The president of Faes does analyze the rise of Vox. "It may be due to several factors: the evolution of the situation in Catalonia, the fatigue of the voters in the face of ungovernability, or the uprooting of many voters with respect to traditional parties." Of course, "it remains to be demonstrated that Vox is a consolidated political force ... beyond continuing in a profitable but inconsistent populism."

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