Felipe González, critical of the government’s agreements with the independentists: “What interest could it have…”

2024-10-03 19:55:59

This Thursday the La Toja Forum took place in Galicia. The two former presidents of the government, Felipe González and Mariano Rajoy, met here and took part in a debate on competitiveness and governance in Europe. The President-elect of the European Council, António Costa, also attended.

The two former presidents talked about it actualitywhere for a moment the left and the right understood each other, given that they had quite a few coincidences. One of them, regarding the independentist parties. For them, these political formations do not have no interest in promoting the governability of Spain.

“But what interest can an independence force have in having a government in Spain?” said González. While Rajoy assures that “the day Frankenstein settled in Spain, the problems began”. The former leader of the People’s Party added that “if you depend on someone who absolutely doesn’t believe in what we have done in recent years, in Spain they don’t care about governance, nor do they care about anything. What they want is the right to self-determination, all these stories.”

Against the amnesty

This is not the first time both former presidents have done so same opinion. Last June they coincided with the tribute to the journalist Victoria Prego and it was there where They criticized the amnestywhich a few days earlier had been published in the Official State Gazette (BOE).

At that meeting they also supported the need for a politics of pacts and agreementsremembering those who enabled the Transition. “I hope that the memory of the Constitutional Pact and the antecedents of the Constitutional Pact remains (…) to know that the agreement is fundamental for coexistence, for life in freedom”, said González.

For his part, Rajoy took the opportunity to criticize “populism” and recognize that democracy, not only in Spain, but also in other countries, “is not going through its best moment”. “The worst thing is that liberal democracy has an enemy at home, populism,” he said.

Here they also agreed on a key point: accusation against the amnesty law. Former president Mariano Rajoy assured that the law “violates” some points of the Spanish Constitution: “The amnesty violates the principle of equality and the principle of separation of powers”, he concluded. Something he considers “very serious”.

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