The Government calls Aznar a “coup plotter” for his reaction to the amnesty

2023-09-12 15:29:36

The Government has come out against former president José María Aznar, who has called for a “national” rebellion against an amnesty agreed between Sánchez and Junts in exchange for their votes for the investiture. The one who was head of the Executive between 1996 and 2004 has appealed to the spirit of Ermua and the cry of “enough is enough”, comparing the process of “involution” and “national destruction” due to the “surrender of socialism to secessionism” over the years of terrorism in Spain.

“This is not the first time that the strength of Spanish society has been put to the test. Involution, terrorism and sedition have sought to dynamite our will to coexist. And we must say, enough is enough! Spain cannot return to a system based in exclusion, sectarianism and the programmed destruction of the nation. We cannot return to the Spain of winners and losers,” he noted.

These positions have caused deep discomfort in Moncloa, which considers them to be “absolutely serious”, which is why the government spokesperson has attacked Aznar with total harshness. At the press conference after the Council of Ministers, Isabel Rodríguez assessed that his statements “resemble more to anti-democratic and coup-like behavior” than “to those of a former president.” Something that he sees as incompatible with the democratic and constitutional values ​​of our country.

That said, the spokesperson has attacked Aznar, whom she has accused of lying to the Spanish people after the jihadist attack of March 11, 2004 in Madrid, ensuring that “it was he who used the largest terrorist attack on our country.” For this reason, she has assessed, he has “little credibility and his statements have no political or even moral value.” However, given what his figure represents and the role he still has in the PP, Rodríguez believes that these words would require an immediate request from Feijóo “to rectify it”, insisting that this type of behavior corresponds to undemocratic systems. and these are “coup calls.”

According to the spokesperson, these behaviors are not new in the PP, which is why she has insisted on the need for rectification and has asked herself “what would be next, the call for an uprising?” Privately, government sources recognized the harshness of her words, a position that they had “very clear” since they learned of the former president’s words, because in her opinion, they “deserved a forceful response.”