Mayor Oreja suggests that the Catalan extreme left could be behind the attack on Vidal Quadras

The former Minister of the Interior Jaime Mayor Oreja gave a talk yesterday under the title Building Spain in a religious charter school in Madrid to ESO and Baccalaureate children during school hours in which he suggested that the Catalan extreme left could be behind the attack of the former leader of the PP Catalan and ex-Eurodupitate Alejo Vidal Quadras a few weeks ago and, among other issues, explained that Spain is “in free fall” because of “a lethal suicidal project that added to the left, socialists, communists and nationalists with ETA as captain general” The talk, presented by El País, can be viewed on the educational center’s social networks.

At the Cristo Rey school, before some 300 children between 14 and 17 years old on a day framed within the week of Constitution Day, the Minister of the Interior between 1996 and 2001 praised the Magna Carta as “the first attempt at 100 years” of creating a Constitution that had “neither winners nor losers” after other attempts that he described as “partial.” “It was and is a success,” said Mayor Oreja, who, however, warned that “Spain is in free fall, not on the brink of the abyss, we are when you have already decided to commit suicide and you are falling into the void.” And all because, in his opinion, a “suicidal project” directed by ETA to which “the left, socialists, communists and nationalists” have joined.

“We no longer depend on ourselves,” said the former minister who at the time could have succeeded José María Aznar as head of the PP. But the blame, according to him, does not lie with the Constitution but “with those who wanted to make a lethal interpretation for Spain”, with ETA at the helm. Precisely, Mayor Oreja, who was presented by a nun – El País identifies her as Mother Cristina – from the school who assured that the former leader of the PP would shed light on the students, predicted that ETA, which has not existed since 2018, will govern the Country Basque next year with socialists and Sumar.

After reiterating his defense of the Constitution, Mayor Oreja, highlighted a deficiency in the law, not in its articles but “in its spirit.” And this is, in his opinion, that “loyalty was not demanded from the Basque and Catalan nationalisms that had power because they were killing” and he regretted that the nationalists “were given autonomy but there was no loyalty.” “The failure is not in the articles, but rather that we did not know how to obtain a counterpart in the form of loyalty to Spain,” he stressed.

The former popular leader considered that “Spain changed course in 2004” with the 11-M attack, of which he questioned its Islamist authorship. “The attack took place four days before the general elections. If it had been revenge on the part of the Iraqis, they would have done it another day.” And he denounced that “terrorist violence has been decisive for Spain.”

In line with this, he also spoke of another more recent attack, the one suffered by his former teammate and friend Vidal Quadras and whose authorship has not been completely clarified although the target is the Iranian regime. “The objective is to destabilize Spain. Who did it, the Russians, the Catalan extreme left, the Spanish extreme right…? I don’t care,” he snapped, indicating that the objective of the attack was that the demonstration that took place a few days later against the amnesty was very different from what it was.

Mayor Oreja also explained that since Zapatero Spain has experienced two phases: one of exaltation of “self-determination in the personal order”, with the laws of abortion, euthanasia, gender determination, and he warned that now we are in “a second stage of self-determination of the communities” that will lead, in his opinion, “to a balkanization”, to a “dismantling of the nation”. And for this, the former head of the Interior denounced, for the current Government “it is essential to break the only power that they do not control, the judiciary”, since they already have the government, the legislature and the Constitutional Court. “They only lack the General Council of the Judiciary and the Supreme Court,” he noted.

The words of Aznar’s former minister have already earned the Government’s rejection. “I am sorry for the students who have had to listen to these issues,” the Minister of Education and Government spokesperson, Pilar Alegría, simply stated at the press conference after the Council of Ministers. And that “those who spoke of indoctrination” do it, she reproached.

For his part, Pedro Sánchez’s chief of staff, Óscar López, pointed out that “those great ‘patriots’ of the right who carry their resentment, their lies and their ashy speech about Spain. Like tired ghosts of the past. Even before kids from 14 to 17 years old,” López lamented with an image of the minister with the members of the Cristo Rey school who had invited him, including two nuns.

The Minister of the Interior, Joan Ignasi Elena, has also spoken out, who on Tuesday condemned the statements and called them “deplorable.” “He is a fanatic and absolutely irresponsible,” he said in an interview on Rac 1, in which he highlighted that Mayor Oreja “is attributing attempts to murder specific people to political ideologies.” In this sense, he has considered that saying that there is a movement to destroy Spain “is delusional.”