Aznar warns the PP that Junts cannot be counted on to overthrow Sánchez

MadridAlthough José María Aznar has proclaimed the famous "whoever can, let them do it" against Pedro Sánchez, the former Spanish president is not pressuring Alberto Núñez Feijóo to register a motion of no confidence, unlike Vox. The former PP leader has warned his party that Junts cannot be relied upon to oust the head of the executive, no matter how much Carles Puigdemont's party may provide occasional support to parliamentary initiatives, of a symbolic nature, against Sánchez's continuity. "Congress cannot build a constructive motion of no confidence," lamented Aznar, who attributed it to the fact that the allies of the socialist leader's investiture want to "be able to consummate their plunder of the State." The former Spanish president and PP leader criticized that Moncloa has ended up being "a Madrid delegation of secessionism".

Aznar made this reflection at an informative breakfast this Wednesday in which he intervened to introduce the PP spokesperson in Congress, Ester Muñoz, who also confirmed what Feijóo repeats to boredom. That there are currently no possibilities to build a real majority against Sánchez and, therefore, to present a successful motion of no confidence. Muñoz stated that she sees a hypothetical agreement with Junts as "difficult." From the popular leadership, they note a coincidence with the Junts supporters on economic matters, but at the same time irreconcilable differences on core issues concerning the conception of Spain. Muñoz emphasized that the PP has "the State, the Constitution, and the law" as red lines, and the popular party stresses that this is an issue they have always been clear about, beyond the words of the current president of the FAES Foundation.

In fact, the PP spokesperson, Borja Sémper, already made it clear this Monday at a press conference that the PP has no intention of reconsidering its position on issues essential for Junts, such as amnesty, to try to win them over. It is precisely to this demand from Puigdemont's party that Aznar has focused one of his points, denouncing the "Faustian pact [by Sánchez with independence movements] by which the soul of the State, that is, national cohesion, is surrendered" in exchange for "mediated power." In this regard, the former Spanish president stressed that the "majority capable of overthrowing Sánchez" will either "be national or it will not be." Aznar called for the construction of "a broad, centered majority with the capacity to mobilize on the right and on the left."

In full negotiation with Vox in Andalusia, one of the last bastions of the PP's centrist soul, Aznar has insisted that support must be gathered from both sides of the political board with a "reconstructive purpose of historical dimension". According to the former president, what is important about the next Spanish elections "is not when they are called" but understanding that they are "the most important in all of recent democratic history". "We are not playing for a change of government but a change of system," he stressed, warning that "the constitutional nation and equality before the law" are at stake.