The former president of the government, Mariano Rajoy, has claimed the application of article 155 in Catalonia during his mandate and has assured that it was “the key” to reach the current situation in Catalonia.
Given Sánchez’s position that the PSOE has managed to calm the independence situation, Rajoy has assured that “the most useful thing” was “the application of 155” during his government and that it served “to stop those who go against the Constitution “.
Thanks to 155, Rajoy has reflected, “the independentistas found out that the EC has instruments to defend itself and that in case of attack these are applied.” In this sense, the former president has criticized that Pedro Sánchez used pardons, “suppressed the crime of sedition and sent the prisoners to the Basque Country because they needed their votes.”
In an interview in Herrera in COPE, Rajoy has assessed the current situation of the political scene and the country. The former leader of the PP sees the electoral campaign with “optimism” and has criticized that Sánchez gives the “feeling of a bad student: he has not given a blow to the water in a few years and intends in half an hour to recover everything he did not do in his day” .
The former president of the government has assured that in the general elections of 23-J it will be decided between a government “Frankenstein or a government of the PP that brings peace and efficiency”. In this sense, Rajoy has assured that Feijóo “is a proven politician, who has won four elections and has governed an autonomous community for twelve years.” “He is a prudent, capable and reliable person”, he added.
Regarding the current situation of relations between Spain and Morocco, Rajoy lamented that “there has been a change that is quite dangerous”. “It is a mistake, and these things should be agreed upon and agreed upon,” the former president clarified, who has claimed that during his term he did not discuss with Morocco or Algeria.
On ETA and if Zapatero put an end to it, Rajoy has assured that the one who put an end to the terrorist group was “the whole of Spanish society, the police, judges and prosecutors, no government”.
Finally, the popular former president wanted to normalize the agreements with Vox, assuring that “sometimes the numbers do not give and you have to agree.” Despite the fact that he has assured that “it is necessary for a consensus to return”, Rajoy has marked the red lines of the PP, situating them in that his party will not agree “neither with the political arms of a terrorist organization, nor with independentistas, nor with people who are radically against the EC”.
