Pedro Sánchez has responded to the former leader of the PP and former president José María Aznar about his rejection of the existence of Gaza genocide perpetrated by Israel. The president of the Government has said during his speech at the traditional Festa de la Rosa de Gavà (Barcelona), which celebrates the PSC every year, which of the former leader does not expect “any lesson”, but some “apologies”, both for the Iraq war and for his “lies with the 11m”. In addition, the president has reproached him that while seeing “weapons of destruction where they did not exist”, now he does not see “the barbarism in Gaza.”
“Do you remember José María Aznar?” Sánchez began his speech, to then add: “And that man who saw weapons of mass destruction where they did not exist and that is unable to see the barbarism that Netanyahu perpetrates in Gaza?” “Well, I tell Mr. Aznar with all humility,” he continued, “that we do not expect any lesson, what we hope is apologies.” And the president has riveted between applause: “Excuse me for his Iraq war, apologize for his lie with the Iraq war and also with March 11”.
This same week, Aznar defended Israel's military offensive over Gaza, defined as “genocide” by the UN. He said that if Israel loses “what he is doing” in Gaza would put “the western world to the edge of total defeat.” A few words that this Sunday have been criticized by both Sánchez and the President of Catalonia, Salvador Illa. “Your words and threats give us stimulus and encourage us to continue working,” said the president.
Illa has come to say that “what is terminal is Aznarism. It is terminal and is detrimental. You left public services at ground level,” after remembering that the right continues “kidnapped by fear, terror, superb and threats.” “This man, and is serious in the mouth of a former president of the Government, has called to skip the law, has threatened with the jail those who think differently from him, has belittled the democratic will,” said Illa, who has insisted act then: “This is not the way, Mr. Aznar, you have some former ministers you in jail, enough, so that you get to give you lesson.”
Sánchez, in addition to responding to Aznar, has referred to former Minister Cristóbal Montoro to criticize the alleged cynicism of the PP. “Do you remember that, of that former Minister of Finance, Cristóbal Montoro?” He asked the attendees. “Cristóbal Montoro, when he was in the opposition Mariano Rajoy and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was as president of the Government, told a deputy 'to fall Spain, that we will come to raise it,” he recalled.
“Well, now Montoro is worried about other things …”, Sánchez has released with sarcasm in reference to call Montoro caseto immediately clarify that the popular “continue with the same strategy.” “And then they say that Spain hurts, Catalonia breaks, the immigrants comes, the LGTBI collective, the Sanchistas come …”, has continued to conclude: “No, Spain does not hurt, what hurts them is to be in the opposition.” And he has apostilled: “They said they didn't come to insult, they came to win Sánchez, but where are three years later? In the opposition and insult.”
In addition, the president of the Government has referred to what he has described as “hypocrisy” of the extreme right and the right: “They claim to defend freedom,” he continued, but “attack freedom of expression.”
During his speech, Sánchez has also assured that “this legislature will renew the autonomous financing and has defended the measure as positive for Catalonia and for the” rest of the country's whole. ”
Aznar, Ayuso and Abascal
In his criticisms to the right, he has also mentioned the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, to which she has placed at the same height in terms of influence in the Spanish right as Aznar and Abascal: “I usually say that the direction of the PP today marks three 'As': Aznar, Ayuso and Abascal.”
Then, he has reproached him for the little social investment of his government. “In these seven years (of socialist government), from 2019 to 2025, we have transferred 45,000 million euros more to the Autonomous Community of Madrid than did Mariano Rajoy as president of the Government in five previous years,” said Sánchez.
“Does that translate into an improvement in public services, for example of health in the Community of Madrid?” Has he wondered to answer: “No.” Finally, the president has assured that the reason is that “of those 45,000 million euros that we have transferred more to the Community of Madrid, the autonomous government of the right has only allocated 45% to the financing of public services.” “The rest has given it to the rich of the Community of Madrid with tax gifts,” he concluded.