If last Saturday it was Mariano Rajoy in Alcalá de Henares who called for unity as a guarantee of success for the PP in the elections of May 28, this Monday it was the other former popular president, José María Aznar, in Alcobendas who has called to "vote usefully" in the Community of Madrid. And for that vote to be useful, the former national leader has affirmed that in the popular ranks must be "everything that is to the right of the left."

"One of the things that I am generally recognized for is having rendered a good service to Spanish democracy and to Spain when I united everything that was to the right of the left. When that came together, the PP became an essential pillar of the Spanish Constitution and a guarantee of stability, "said Aznar, who has stressed that "it is necessary" that the PP "returns to be a winning party" regrouping that entire political spectrum. That is, neutralizing Vox, one of the arguments defended in recent years by the former president.

"Who is going to represent a constitutional guarantee if it is not the PP? Those who make pacts with separatists and former terrorists? Those who question the Constitution? Those who advocate changing these things?", continued Aznar, who has resorted to the spirit of the transition and "the children of war" on whom he pointed out that "they were able to forgive themselves, get together and look to the future". In contrast, he has placed "the grandchildren of the war who want to face the Spaniards." "I prefer to be a child of democracy than a grandson of war, because we know and want the values and virtues of the transition," he said.

Faced with this situation, the former popular leader has asked to "concentrate the vote" in the PP, "especially if open policies that we have always defended are defended": Spain and freedom. "In Madrid, that freedom and progress is called Isabel Díaz Ayuso and nothing else," he said before pointing out that when his party governs he must "repeal the anti-democratic memory and other nonsense" such as the modifications of the crimes of embezzlement and sedition.

The former president has also charged against his successor in La Moncloa, Pedro Sánchez, whom he has accused of "paying the price of oblivion and whitewashing of a coup d'état" in Catalonia or of "the former terrorists" promoting "the weakening of the Spanish nation and the dismantling of the State, which has lost possibilities and faculties to defend itself".

Aznar has insisted that, in case of not grouping the vote in the PP, "the price to pay for Spain would naturally be what the separatists or the former terrorists demand." "The constitutional order and what we know by national sovereignty would have ended," he added before indicating that this is "the reason" why he is participating in the electoral campaign for 28-M, which today has taken him to Madrid and tomorrow to Bilbao.

"Sanchez has to make a pact with the separatists and the former terrorists because otherwise he does not have the slightest chance of being president. It is not a question of trying to whitewash them, forgetting history or telling it in another way, it is a question of power and when you agree with separatists you are willing to pay whatever price it is for being in power even if it is the price of the constitutional order. " has concluded.

In a similar line has been shown the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who has apostilled that "politics is not only about managing public services well but about defending a way of seeing life." "I also want to unite what is to the right of the left," insisted the regional leader, who added that "Spain only has itself and each Spaniard has his desire and himself." "From the desire the Spain abandoned by the Government is the one who has to raise his voice this Sunday," he stressed calling for "a massive vote" for May 28.

The regional president has presented herself as the alternative to those who have undertaken, referring to Pedro Sánchez, "a whitewashing strategy" towards Catalan and Basque separatists "for which one day we will throw our hands to our heads". On these nationalists has pointed out that "they have not stopped weaving in the shadow to perpetuate themselves and carry out their ends to end a common enemy that the PP faced them". And of all that he has made guilty the three socialist presidents that Spain has had: Felipe González, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and now Pedro Sánchez.

  • Isabel Diaz Ayuso
  • Jose Maria Aznar
  • Madrid Elections

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