“I think what is going to happen in the next general elections is that a choice will be made between the constitutional system and the independent confederation of Iberian republics.” That is the prediction made by the former president of the Government, José María Aznar, during a conversation that he shared with the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, at the Francisco de Vitoria University.
Aznar has harshly attacked nationalism, which he has accused of being “a scourge that creates false enemies.” And in line with his prediction about the supposed cornering of the current constitutional system, “with the parliamentary monarchy at the head”, he added that a project like this “is done by tearing apart coexistence between Spaniards as the disastrous policy we have now is demonstrating.” .
In that sense, Ayuso considers that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, will “swallow everything and more” of what the independentists ask of him to continue governing: “This senseless pact is power for power’s sake. Therefore, the president Madrid has insisted that “we are experiencing one of the moments, if not the most serious that Spain has suffered in democracy”, considering that “all the rules have been broken” at the moment in which “the power of the judges, crimes are erased and the penal code is manipulated.” All of this, “to keep me in power and perpetuate myself,” Díaz Ayuso said in reference to Sánchez.
The former popular leader has also accused his successor at the head of the Government, the socialist, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, about the lack of water in Catalonia: “If today the Catalans must remember someone for their lack of water, it is Zapatero and of their ideological reasons,” he said.
The argument made by Aznar is based on Zapatero’s decision to stop in 2001 the National Hydrological Plan created by the Popular Party to connect all the accounts of Spain and supply Aguas de Barcelona. “That plan was approved and financed by the European Union, the works had even already begun, but Zapatero suspended it for ideological reasons,” Aznar insisted.
Accompanied by the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, Aznar has recounted how the PP that he led at the beginning of the century had “assuming the price to be paid in other autonomies” for that hydrological plan, but has vindicated the connection project of all the Catalan basins with the rest of Spain as a “policy of a responsible government” contrary to what happens with regional executives such as Catalonia, which has done nothing in recent decades. “At this point in the 21st century, you cannot live without a great hydrological plan,” he insisted.
