Former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, this Wednesday in the El Cabañal neighborhood of Valencia.Rober Solsona (Europa Press)
The campaign gets a little more muddy in the last days. The leadership of the PP is looking for a quiet final stretch, with nothing to cloud a trend that they believe is very positive for them, and Alberto Núñez Feijóo is concentrating on talking about taxes and the Falcon, the official plane that carries Pedro Sánchez, a an issue that he especially likes and is reminiscent of the campaign with which he came to power in 2009 accusing the socialist Emilio Pérez Touriño of having a better official car than Barack Obama’s, something far removed from reality. However, the PP campaign is not carried out or controlled by Feijóo alone.
Former Prime Minister José María Aznar predicts this Tuesday “consultations” in the Basque Country and Catalonia and a “release” of ETA terrorists with Pedro Sánchez.
If last week the popular saw how the Bildu issue got out of hand because Isabel Díaz Ayuso said that “ETA is alive” and even went so far as to directly confront the president of Covite, Consuelo Ordóñez, now it is José María Aznar who It has once again accelerated the revolutions with the risk for the PP that this, by reaction, provokes the mobilization of the leftist vote, which according to the polls has not yet been activated. Aznar went so far as to say in Bilbao that if the right wing fails to end sanchismo, there will be “a general release of terrorists in prison” and “a consultation, also in the Basque Country.” Neither of the two scenarios seems to be on the table: it is the judges who can free the terrorists, and with both the PP and the PSOE in government, they are all serving their long sentences in full without having achieved any benefit beyond the approaching prisons in the Basque Country, something that is required by law, and even more so after the disappearance of ETA, and which Aznar himself did en masse when the gang was still killing to facilitate a truce.
The PSOE immediately saw the force that Aznar’s excess had and brought his ideal counterpart, former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, to answer, who never criticized the PP when he was head of the opposition for its policy of bringing prisoners closer or dialogue with the band. Sánchez has not entered this battle for the moment and has focused on a positive campaign talking about health, the economy, feminism. But Zapatero entered with everything from Valencia, epicenter of the great battle of the autonomic ones. “I have heard José María Aznar say that if Sánchez and the communists continue, there will be a general release of ETA prisoners. I have also heard that ETA is alive and I must say that the PP does not come out of deception and impudence. He has been like this for 20 years, since he deceived us all with the attack in March 2004, he has not come out of deception and impudence”, Zapatero said in an act together with the Valencian president Ximo Puig and the deputy mayor Sandra Gómez.
“The truth is that ETA disappeared, that that attack was not by ETA as they told us and that, of course, it is a new great lie that there will be a new release of prisoners. Therefore, also in these elections you vote between the truth and the defense of what has been an end to violence as a collective success and deceit and impudence, that is also voted for”, said the former president. “I ask the majority of citizens, out of respect for the truth and coexistence, to vote against deceit and impudence. Out of respect for the truth, for coexistence ”, he concluded.
Aznar affirmed on Tuesday in Bilbao that if the coalition formed by “the Sánchez party and the communists” is repeated with the support of “Catalan separatists and former Sortu terrorists and the PNV bounty seekers”, the “price” to pay will be “consultations ” in Catalonia and the Basque Country and a “general release of terrorists under pressure”.
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The embarrassment is crossed. Ayuso, who always seeks a clash with the Government to achieve national focus, has expanded this time and has gone against the PNV, which he has openly called racist. Feijóo has so far avoided criticizing the PNV and has even met with Andoni Ortuzar to seek a possible agreement in the future, after the generals, but Ayuso has launched this missile against the Basque nationalists and Ortuzar has come out to answer. The PNV leader believes that it is “an injustice and an incomprehensible outburst” that Ayuso has taken advantage of the case of the racist insults to the Real Madrid footballer, Vinicius at the Mestalla, to accuse the PNV of racism. In an interview in El Periódico, the Madrid president stated: “There are also racist behaviors in politics. There are them in the PNV, it is the foundation of the Basque Nationalist Party, they take it there”.
In an interview with Antena 3 and collected by Europa Press, Ortuzar referred to the case of the racist insults to Vinicius in the Mestalla field in Valencia, to recall what happened to Iñaki Williams, from Athletic Club, who suffered on the field from Espanyol racist attacks, and denounced. “It is a wise measure because we must begin to put measures and stop this type of behavior. I am one of those who fully believe the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and that we are all equal, regardless of race, origin, religion, gender or sexual condition. We have to be inflexible in this type of matter ”, he has indicated. Ayuso’s excesses sometimes drag down the entire PP. The president of Andalusia, Juanma Moreno, when asked by journalists about this matter, tried to escape by saying that he had not seen the statements made by his Madrid companion, but later he entered the same garden: “We have seen that some leaders of the PNV in the past spoke of the supremacy of the Basques and the RH, we saw it with [Xabier] Arzallus. Although that doesn’t mean that the current PNV is racist either, ”he said to try to get out of trouble. Aznar and Ayuso thus managed to get the campaign muddy even among their own teammates, even though they initially had other plans.
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