José María Aznar: party for his 70 years at the Teatro Real delighted to have met

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"Is Aznar turning 70? Please, he's great,"

Nuria Roca exclaimed in amazement on Sunday in La Sexta when they revealed to her the age that the former president will be this February 25.

with a dinner at the Teatro Real, to which the PP senior staff is invited, with

at the helm, as well as former ministers and senior officials from his government stage.

And it is that reaching a septuagenarian in top physical and mental shape is a privilege that not many can boast of.

José María Aznar,

, maintains an overflowing activity today.

He often travels around the world, giving conferences or courses, and when he is in Madrid, he goes daily to

that he chairs, located next to the Los Jerónimos church.

From his office, dotted with good luck figurines and photos of characters such as Pope John Paul II and Busch, he continues to act as the PP's ideological "guru", a kind of "jimino cricket" whose guidelines are dogma of faith in the party of him

The respect he treasures is demonstrated by the anecdote that occurred during the PP Intermunicipal meeting at the beginning of February, in Valencia, where his "reconciliation photo

.

Aznar said at a dinner "I am going to speak on behalf of Mariano and myself", to which Rajoy agreed: "Of course, the ladder is the ladder."

With his wife, Ana Botella, in Marbella.GTRES

This week he also participated in a colloquium at the 21st century club escorted by members of the leadership of his party, including

, Núñez Feijóo's right-hand man.

He insisted on the danger posed to Spain by the "continuation of this Frankenstein government", presenting the PP as the "only serious hope for change" and guarantor of "the pillars of the transition".

He also took the opportunity to

: "he has some deep intellectual analysis, but I only recognize two: yes is yes and no is no", and of the trans law "we can go now to change our sex".

A physique of a man 20 years younger

And it is that the former president is currently a "man without complexes", like the advertisement for DYC whiskey, who says and does almost everything he wants, capable of even accepting a face-to-face with Jordi Évole on La

, as he did in 2021. "Although many consider it, he would not return to active politics, nor does he miss his stage as president, now he is living a sweet moment," they say around him.

Financially he is also well covered: this 2023 he will have an endowment of

, a status that also provides him with two level 30 and 18 officials, a car with a driver, an escort and free access to trains, planes and boats.

To this is added his lectures abroad, which long ago reached 40,000 euros per year, according to what was published, and his compensation as a director of various international companies, such as News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch's media

, which according to Esdiario in the last year exceeded 300,000 euros.

Despite this, the pace of life of Aznar, a sober man who turned off lights in La Moncloa to save money, continues to be similar to that of the Treasury inspector he was before entering politics.

He lives with his wife, Ana Botella, in a chalet he owns in the

, although when he can, he escapes to

.

Located in the exclusive Gualdalmina Baja urbanization, on the beachfront, it consists of a 350-square-meter house presided over by a large Spanish flag on a 2,000-meter plot with a swimming pool.

There the former president and the former Madrid mayoress walk, play golf and have lunch in restaurants in the area such as El Ancla, their favorite.

On vacation they bring their children and grandchildren together: José María, married to Mónica Abascal and father of four children, now devoted to the Greyhounders optical business;

Ana, who lives in London, has four children and is married to Alejandro Agag, who is sweeping his Formula E racing competitions;

and Alonso, who works at the investment fund Zara Capital and dates the Mexican model Renata Collado.

His abs to the wind, with Briatore in 2009.GTRES

in a swimsuit

, which gave him a renewed look of a European president and he has polished it off by shaving his mustache and sporting a youthful haircut with hardly any gray hair.

Nothing to do with that Aznar from his arrival at La Moncloa in 1996, whose incipient belly, gelled hair and mustache reminded of an obscure Francoist official.

"Let's see what muscle you show this summer," joked

, who died in 2020 and the architect of his late passion for exercise.

"Physically, the president is 20 years younger than his age and has the training of an Olympic long-distance athlete," Lombao said.

Today Aznar religiously maintains his

, as his PP colleagues verified during the Valencia intermunicipal, who accompanied him to run through the Turia park.

"Even the youngest could not follow him," says a witness who reveals: "He is delighted to have met, even he jokes that some young women who approach him still look at him with good eyes."

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