Feijóo accuses the Spanish government of "having fewer principles than some organized crime clans"

MadridJosé María Aznar is clear that the coming months will be turbulent and that the road to the next Spanish elections will be "turbulent". Hence, the former Spanish Prime Minister has issued a warning to Alberto Núñez Feijóo to prevent a repeat of 2023, where he was left at the gates of Moncloa. "A cool head and a firm hand are needed," Aznar stated this Friday at the closing of the FAES Campus, where he was accompanied by the current leader of the PP, who picked up the gauntlet after his predecessor expressed his conviction that Feijóo "is one of the few public men" who can act with the necessary "calm". "That Aznar says he trusts me is not a compliment, it is a challenge," the Galician politician replied.

The Popular Party president is clear that maintaining Aznar's support will depend on the electoral results he achieves in 2027 and that, foreseeably, it is the last opportunity he has to reach the presidency of the Spanish government. A new defeat could open Pandora's box for a change of leadership in the party. Beyond this personal and internal relevance, Feijóo has presented the upcoming elections as a "great national call" that must serve not only to renew the Spanish executive but to "renew the social contract" of the State. The PP leader made a comparison with the Spanish Transition and, in line with Aznar's speech, said he accepts the challenge of carrying out a "national reconstruction" after eight years of "Sanchismo".

In the opinion of Aznar and Feijóo, Pedro Sánchez's legacy is devastating and the end of his term "is being very grotesque". The criticism made by the PP leader is so great that he has even compared it to delinquency. "We live under a government with fewer principles than some organized crime clans," Feijóo asserted. Coinciding with the Spanish Prime Minister's official trip to the United States to attend the UN General Assembly, Feijóo criticized Sánchez's foreign policy, whom he once again accused of being "submissive" to Morocco in the face of the Ceuta crisis. "Spain suffers an attack due to its weakness," he claimed.

Leaving the event, Feijóo also criticized Sánchez's housing policy, in the midst of controversy over the eviction of Maricarmen, an 87-year-old resident of Madrid in a vulnerable situation. After avoiding commenting this Thursday, the PP leader asked for "an opportunity to solve the housing problem" from Moncloa and argued that it is necessary to "build more than a million new homes" and seek "exceptional responses" to "disheartening" cases like Maricarmen's. A less aggressive approach than the one Isabel Díaz Ayuso has taken so far, who is the PP voice most heard in recent days.

"Politicians and not demagogues"

Without making explicit reference to anyone in particular, Aznar praised Feijóo as a "statesman willing to exercise command tasks" and capable of "restoring respect" in the public sphere. "Politicians must be chosen, not demagogues. Spain needs statesmen and not charlatans, apostles and prophets," said the former Spanish president, who claimed Feijóo's discreet "patriotism" in the face of those who "disguise themselves as captain of the tercios," in a veiled reference to the Vox leader, Santiago Abascal.