• Politics. Aznar sees the agreement with Bildu as the beginning of the "fracture" of Spain and Guerra dismisses it as "despicable"

  • Moncloa. The decree that excluded Iglesias from the European fund and that the Government now calls a "draft" was the "definitive one" in the Presidency

  • Politics.José María Aznar: "Spain is a state in constitutional and institutional regression"

José María Aznar has sounded the alarm at "the process of delegitimization of the institutions" that, in his opinion, Spain is experiencing and has denounced that its inducers are pursuing "a constituent process to destroy Spanish society as we know it ".

Faced with this, he demands leaders who bet not to "shut up."

The former Prime Minister has not explicitly named those responsible for this "operation of destruction and power", but has hinted that it is United We Can and the independentists of ERC and EH Bildu.

Hence, he has bitterly regretted that Spain has rulers who are "an example of supine ignorance", because "they do not know or are interested" in what is happening.

"There are others who do know very well what they want and that is why they dedicate themselves every day to delegitimize institutions and want processes of social change every day," he added, within his reflections in the framework of a talk in the Classroom of Leadership of the Atlantic Institute of Government and the Francisco de Vitoria University.

Faced with the threat of radicalism and the express role that EH Bildu has begun to play, which he says "is part of the Government coalition", Aznar has advocated building "stable options in the center" to guarantee coexistence and face to the dangers of "authoritarianism" and "populisms".

"Spain was better 20 years ago"

The former leader of the PP has stressed in this regard the importance that leaders play there, because he considers that it is necessary to raise one's voice against the process of "delegitimization of the institutions" and against the attempt to "end everything that the Transition meant" .

"The terrain of a liberal is not to accept this. To shut up is to become largely complicit in some processes and historical drifts that can lead countries to very bad fate," he stressed.

"I have to say it, explain it and assume those risks," said the former Prime Minister, because it was also said that in Venezuela these risks could not come to pass and have ended up happening.

Delving into this, he considers that the role of the leader "is not to try to please others, but to defend his concept of a free and open society."

Hence, it has claimed to oppose processes that lead in the "opposite direction" to the Transition, that is, to "less freedom, less democracy, less growth or fewer opportunities."

Aznar has affirmed that Spain "was better 20 years ago than now in general terms", just as he has said that the Spain of the Transition was better than the one that existed under the Franco regime.

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