When Aznar speaks, the entire PP listens. And not only the PP. From Aznar, ideological leadership and moral authority that act as compasses are expected on the right, and that is precisely what the former president of the Government wanted to respond to this Tuesday. In a “dramatic” moment for the country, “because there is a certain existential risk for the continuity of Spain as a nation” of free and equal citizens “under the rule of law,” the president of Field has called for the mobilization of civil society against the possible amnesty for the crimes of the process.
“We must say again, enough is enough! Spain cannot and will not return to a system based on exclusion, sectarianism, or the programmed destruction of the nation,” Aznar assured at the inauguration of the Campus Faesorganized by the think tank who presides. He was thus referring to the general cry of Spanish society against the kidnapping and subsequent murder of Miguel Ángel Blanco at the hands of ETA, in 1997.
That has been the parallel that he has drawn to call on anyone who does not agree with the amnesty to rise up against it. “It will not be the first time that the strength of Spanish society is put to the test. Involution, terrorism, sedition have sought to frustrate our will to coexist,” and now “it is necessary to activate all those energies” to wage “a conflict democratic and affirming Rule of law” and “to stand up with all determination to a plan that wants to end the Constitution”.
Aznar’s appeal to mobilization is total. “No one can be left out of a task that must call us to ensure the future. No instance, no democratic power, no social, cultural or intellectual leadership, not even the constitutional left that risks its own identity and its trajectory, no one, I insist , with a sense of responsibility, committed to the historic agreement between Spaniards,” Aznar emphasized.
In a speech of great dialectical force and endowed with a gravity different from that of Feijóo, Aznar has stressed that “what is underway is an operation to dismantle the Constitution, to destroy its legitimacy, to reverse a great history of success”. In case there were any doubts, he has been even clearer: “The surrender of socialism to secessionism in exchange for maintaining power is in itself the most destructive fact that we have suffered in democratic politics.”