The former president of the government José María Aznar criticized this Tuesday the “right and left populism” by blaming Vox for prioritizing the attack on the PP candidate, María Guardiola, during the campaign for the elections in Extremadura, … and to the PSOE for having presented a “treated” candidate like Miguel Ángel Gallardo.
“Right-wing populism in Spain has no better ally than this government“, and this government has no better ally than that of the right,” said Aznar in an interview with Espejo Público on Antena 3, collected by Europa Press, with reference to Vox and the PSOE.
When asked why Santiago Abascal’s party mainly focuses its attacks on the PP candidate during the Extremadura campaign, Aznar replies that it is because “what they obviously want is that María Guardiola cannot govern.”
“What interests Vox is to feed on institutional discredit that the Government is provoking in an attempt to replace the Popular Party”, he added.
Unconstitutional coalition without budget
In this sense, Aznar censored the PSOE executive for the corruption scandals of the “Koldo case” and the former advisor to Moncloa Francisco Salazar, but he focused mainly on the conviction of the state attorney general and the election of a PSOE candidate. “transformed” in Extremadura under the name Gallardo.
“And to what extent do you want to harm institutions in exchange for being in power for a few weeks, a few months?”
Jose Maria Aznar
Former President of the Government
According to him, the latter shows that the PSOE and the government “do not care about the prestige” of their party and that of the institutions, warning that this discredit ends up “fueling populism”.
Possibility that the PP brings together a majority of right and left
The former president of the PP declared that what he “envisions” is that the PP is a party which “knows how to bring together a social majority” which responds to “liberal, open, constitutional majority, right and leftwho knows how to organize and stabilize the country.
Furthermore, he questioned whether developments in the Spanish economy were positive for the middle classes and criticized the fact that the country does not have general state budgets due to what he called an “unconstitutional coalition.”
“How far do you want to put up with this situation which is a strictly personal situation? And to what extent do you want to harm institutions in exchange for power for a few weeks, a few months? Aznar wondered.
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