Former Prime Minister José María Aznar has praised the "important" management that Isabel Díaz Ayuso is developing in Madrid during the coronavirus health crisis and has assured that he envies the criticism he receives from the "sons of Hugo Chavez".

Aznar presented this afternoon the conference of the regional president in the Leadership Classroom organized by the Atlantic Institute of Government (IADG) and the Graduate School of the Francisco de Vitoria University (UFV), where he related "a short history of a few years, "which led former US President Bill Clinton to tell him" that he was the person I envied the most in the world. "

The anecdote took place when "the dictator Hugo Chávez", the former president of Venezuela, who had "an obsession and fixation with me" lived. "He kept insulting me and making me responsible for all his ills," he recalled.

"That lasted and became famous in one part of the world when someone said 'why don't you shut up' and that went around the world," referring to the phrase that King Emeritus Juan Carlos launched at Chávez during an Ibero-American summit.

Hence, he remembered that he had a meeting with Bill Clinton one day. "He told me 'what I would give because Hugo Chávez will insult me,'" Aznar recalled of the anecdote that he has brought up to positively assess Ayuso's management. "You don't know what I envy you because because the children of Chávez insult you instead of me."

"An important task has to be done in terms of the common good, efficiency and defense of freedom to deserve so much attention from those who sow hatred and sectarianism," said the former Prime Minister.

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