Alberto Núñez Feijóo did not want to stop and answer the umpteenth question about whether he is going to pressure Carlos Mazón to resign, but the issue was the talk in the circles prior to the presentation of José María Aznar’s new book, Order and freedom, this Thursday in the Rafael del Pino auditorium. “Yesterday was horrible,” members of the PP commented in a group, referring to the insults that the Valencian president received during the state funeral for the victims of the dana. The interrogation of Pedro Sánchez in the investigative commission in the Senate for the Koldo caseand Aznar took the opportunity to try to encourage the troops and ask them not to get nervous. “I have been head of the opposition and I know what it is,” he said before Feijóo. “Being a political opponent is like taking an exam for a tax inspector or a notary. It’s an unfortunate situation because you work all day but you don’t get results until you take the exam. What you shouldn’t generate is frustration in people.” The former president of the Government was referring to the anxiety for the electoral call or for a motion of censure for which the numbers are not provided. “If there is no material for a motion of censure and there isn’t, then we will have to wait for the elections. Feeding frustration is feeding extremist positions.”
It is Vox, according to the polls, who is capitalizing on the wear and tear of the Government and the PSOE due to corruption scandals and who has won the young vote. And the data have resurrected the eternal internal debate in the PP since the emergence of its split party: how to relate to the extreme right. “The only constitutional party left in Spain,” Aznar declared, “is the PP. And Vox’s only objective is to put an end to the PP.”
While he asked his party for calm, he asked citizens for the opposite in a new version of “he who can make him do it” that he launched a few months ago. “I make a very serious appeal to citizen responsibility. The Spaniards cannot be spectators of the tearing apart of Spain. We have to intervene in the destiny of our country. (…) In the face of a citizen who is inhibited, who does not come to complain to me later. Antonio Maura once said to King Alfonso We understand what we have at stake. The issues are not to be inhibited at this moment. They are for those who can do, do.” It was Aznar’s intervention that drew the most applause from the audience, among whom were former ministers such as Jaime Mayor Oreja, José Manuel Soria and Ángel Acebes.
