Aznar returns to national Spain

José María Aznar gave Alberto Núñez Feijóo an order yesterday in front of everyone: to get rid of Sánchez, you must only count on Spaniards. And to govern, in the future, also, only Spaniards, not the PNB, nor Junts. He said it like this:

 The “majority capable of overthrowing Sánchez” or “it will be national or it will not be.” The PP is desperate to touch power; that is, to touch the Official State Gazette; that is, to approve royal decrees, grant public works, and appoint ministers, secretaries of state, ambassadors, delegates of the Spanish government… And, accustomed to ruling since always, and this includes Franco, very especially, it contemplates with horror that it does not govern despite having won the elections because only Vox supports it, and it cannot present a constructive motion of no confidence for the same reason: because only Vox supports it. That is why it distrusts the electoral law, gets into a mess, and even though it previously supported the grandchildren of Spaniards abroad voting (the founder of the PP, the Francoist minister Manuel Fraga, went to Galicia and Cuba to look for grandchildren of Galicians), now after the order “he who can, do so,” it turns out that the majority “will be national or it will not be,” which also connects with Vox's “national priority” that the PP is embracing through pacts in Extremadura and now in Andalusia.

It's quite ironic that what prevents Feijóo from making a deal with Junts and the PNB is Aznar, who made a deal with Pujol's Convergència i Unió in 1996. The same Aznar from the same PP that went from "Pujol, dwarf, speak in Castilian" to "Pujol, handsome, speak as you wish".  Ultimately, Aznar's intervention yesterday confirms some things we already knew: that Feijóo is not in charge, that Aznar and Ayuso are in charge, and that Catalans and Basques who vote for nationalist or independentist parties are not Spanish enough or, simply, are not Spanish, and only serve to increase GDP, pay taxes, and stay silent. Likewise, some Spanish socialists, like Sánchez, are not Spanish enough. Others, like Felipe and Page, are.The Spanish political situation, in which the world ends every day, is both worrying and curious: both the PP and Vox, as well as the PSOE and those to the left of the PSOE, believe that after the elections there will not be a change of government but a change of rules of the game, tending to leave them out. Aznar's words yesterday point in this direction, as Núria Orriols recalls from Madrid: "The governability of the State can never again fall to those who are not "national as Núria Orriols recalls from Madrid: "The governability of the State can never again fall to those who are not "nationalAznar is clever enough to know that part of the rise of Catalan and Basque independence is thanks to him and people like him. He is clever enough to know that societies and countries change. Not just Spain: look at France, or the United Kingdom, or Italy. Not just on the left: look at how far-right parties have emerged everywhere. And he is clever enough to know that, at least for the next few years, the PP will continue to have no strength in Catalonia and therefore can aspire to govern Spain against Catalonia.  Political Spain never fails. The question is how the Catalan political parties will respond.Good morning.