Sánchez attacks Aznar after the success of attacking Trump

This morning something very interesting happened, a new strategic move by Pedro Sánchez in his long and well-known struggle to resist, to resist everything: his collaborators in prison, the indictment of his wife and brother, his party defeated in every election in Extremadura, Aragon, and Castile and León. This morning Sánchez went to Congress to explain the social measures to alleviate the cost of the war in Iran. And he went on the attack. Seeing that Europe is no longer leaving him alone with the "No to war" movement, he said that the 2026 war in Iran is like the 2003 Iraq War, which had disastrous consequences in Iraq, in the world, and on our streets with Islamist terrorism. That if that war was illegal, this one is too. And that the People's Party (PP) was complicit. But to say that Iran is like Iraq, to ​​once again use the trump card of the "No to war" movement of 2003, is déjà vu. And then, Sánchez personalized it with a tremendous attack against José María Aznar. He said that Aznar, in 2003, wanted to feel important, that he supported a war in exchange for ego, for the power to influence George Bush. He recalled that the Madrid bombings were the fault of that war. And he recalled that Aznar shows no remorse. He even went so far as to question his morality.

Pedro Sánchez: "Over the years, some of the promoters of the illegal war in Iraq changed their position. Former President George Bush apologized. The former British Prime Minister apologized for this illegal war. And what has former President Aznar said? That he doesn't regret anything and never will."

"That's the moral character of former President Aznar." I won't say it, but what's the point of bringing up Aznar now, 22 years after he left office? Clearly, he's playing on Aznar because he's still a divisive figure. Sánchez wants to argue with Aznar, he wants Aznar to respond; Sánchez is looking for the same thing in Aznar that he found in Trump: a "bad guy" who makes him look good, because Sánchez is good at energizing his supporters by inflaming their extremes. And, incidentally, he diminishes Feijóo's importance. We'll see if Aznar takes the bait, but it's obvious he can't let it go.

Incidentally, the underlying issues are the economic measures, which will be voted on tomorrow, and which will be a necessary relief for our wallets so that, as we explained today,

Trump's diplomatic shift hasn't stopped the war, and an escalation is feared. Today the stock markets have risen, the price of oil has fallen, but the situation is far from resolved. Incidentally, Junts will vote in favor of the decree law on war relief measures, in exchange for the PSOE legislating in the future to exempt self-employed workers earning less than €85,000 from VAT (reducing it to zero). We'll see if the Socialists actually implement this change.

Good morning.