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The leader of the PP, Pablo Casado, and the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel García Margallo, have made "a song to the political center", in the words of the latter, and have called the moderate forces to "build a constitutionalist alternative "to deal with the" regime change "that the Pedro Sánchez coalition government intends in pursuit of a" plurinational state ".

This has been raised, on the afternoon of Wednesday, in the presentation at the Congress of Deputies of the latest book by García Margallo, heterodox memoirs. Of a politician of extreme center (Editorial Peninsula. Footprints). Ana Pastor, vice president of the Congress, has presided over the event accompanied by the president of the PP and leader of the opposition, Pablo Casado, and by the director of EL MUNDO, Francisco Rosell .

The former minister and today MEP has insisted, to Rosell's questions, that in order to solve the Catalan problem "one must have a strong government, which is very radical, defending that sovereignty belongs to the Spanish people and that the nation is indissoluble."

For him it is essential "to have an idea for Catalonia because," he said, "you can't go with him everywhere." In that regard, he recalled the proposal he made as a minister in favor of a language law, the development of the third additional provision of the Constitution and the design of a new regional financing model. With these three ideas as a flag, one could, as he pointed out, have laid the foundations to face the Catalan challenge.

Pablo Casado, on the other hand, has assured that the main responsibility of what is happening now with Catalonia "is not Sanchez, but of a PSOE that has been abandoning the constitutional consensus for three years" and has influenced the need for the State to have a constant presence in the autonomous community to counteract secessionist discourse.

The president "should not" meet with Torra

"My concern," he said, "is that the dependence of the Government of the nation on the independence movement will lead to bilaterality, amnesty and self-determination. That will be the meeting agenda, next week, between Sánchez and Torra." The president of the Government, stressed the leader of the PP, "should not attend that meeting."

Casado believes that "there is no alternative" to the regrouping of constitutionalist forces. And in that endeavor, he affirmed: "We cannot do more." He has thus referred to his proposals for re-foundation of the center-right, the idea of ​​sharing lists, the Spain Suma plan with joint candidacies, none of which was accepted by Citizens or Vox. Now, in a final attempt, the leader of the PP says he is willing to raise this merger project to the category of "extreme urgency."

García Margallo, on the other hand, has indicated to the former President of the Government José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero as the "origin of what is happening" in Spain with the new coalition Government and that, for him, it is nothing other than "the attempt to find shortcuts that are not legal ", as in Catalonia, where" what is happening is a coup d'etat ".

The former minister recalls the spirit of agreement shown by the UCD and the PSOE to start democracy with reconciliation. "Now what interests is tense, as Zapatero said; alter the consensus, as Sánchez has done by agreeing with the independentists and agreeing on a bilateral table in which he will consecrate," he has predicted, "the term of nation for Catalonia."

Change of course of foreign policy

Pablo Casado, on the other hand, has made an exhaustive review of the diplomatic achievements that were obtained during the Margallo stage as Foreign Minister. A work, he says, "is now getting blurred" with the performance of his successors. "We return to irrelevance and misunderstanding," he criticized.

The former minister has also referred to the change in direction in foreign policy towards Venezuela, warning that these money orders are "paid". "We have lost the leadership in Latin America," he lamented and warned the Coalition Government that "like or dislike Trump, the United States is an essential nation."

Ana Pastor, vice president of Congress, has presented the author of the book as someone who "has been everything since the transition" because he was an elected deputy in the Constituent Cortes and then in more than half a dozen legislatures. Eeurodiputado and Minister of Foreign Affairs. Pastor has been accompanied in the presentation and subsequent colloquium by Casado and by the director of EL MUNDO.

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