Aznar warns in Bilbao that another Sánchez government will mean "seeing ETA prisoners walking the streets" and a sovereignist "consultation"

The former president of the Government and of the PP José María Aznar has rejected the argument used by Pedro Sánchez that it was the socialists who ended up for ETA to verify that “we gave the total battle” with political and judicial measures that led to the illegalization of Herri Batasuna. After the “defeat” of the terrorist group, Aznar has warned of the “price” that Sánchez would be willing to pay to once again have the support of the “former terrorists” to continue in La Moncloa. According to Aznar, with Sánchez “there will be a general release of [ETA] prisoners” and a sovereignist “consultation” will be allowed in the Basque Country and in Catalonia.

Aznar has wrapped up in Bilbao the candidates of the PP of Vizcaya Esther Martínez and Raquel González appealing to the “most necessary vote” against those who “want to end the country” in a “process in two acts” that will take place on May 28 and in the December elections. For almost half an hour, Aznar has charged against the government made up “by Sánchez's party” (without mentioning the PSOE at any time) together with “communists, separatists, former terrorists and PNV bounty hunters”. The former president has warned in Bilbao that the “essential question” is “why Sánchez” insists on agreeing for the former terrorists”, referring to EH Bildu. “What matters to [Sánchez] is to be in power at any price,” Aznar confirmed.

“Everything [in relation to ETA and its environment] was the same; either the battle was fought against everything or it was not won,” Aznar warned after listening in recent weeks to how President Sánchez attributed the victory against socialist governments to socialist governments. the terrorist group to counter criticism for its alliance with a coalition that presents 44 convicted of terrorist crimes. “I could say more things,” Aznar has insinuated without specifying his reflection to endorse the PP of Núñez Feijóo.

The former president of the Government has ruled out any pact between the PP and the PSOE to claim that Alberto Núñez Feijóo leads a “strong government”, without mentioning Vox as a possible ally either. With vehemence before an audience made up of officials and supporters of the PP, Aznar has defended that Feijóo's PP is the “only constitutional bulwark” while Sánchez represents a “constitutional problem” that places Spain in a “critical situation” with two appointments elections in the coming months.

“The pro-etarras are the ones who rule this country by the work and grace of Pedro Sánchez”, warned Carlos Iturgaiz in the moments before Aznar's appearance in Bilbao. Iturgaiz and the president of Vizcaya and candidate for the Vizcaya Provincial Council, Raquel González, have been in charge of 'warming up' a speech by Aznar with EH Bildu as the protagonist. Iturgaiz thanked Aznar for his presence just three days after the president of Madrid Isabel Díaz Ayuso campaigned for the Basque PP in Bilbao. Aznar, like Díaz Ayuso in these elections, also closed the list of popular supporters in the Biscayan capital when Antonio Basagoiti brushed against the Mayor's Office of La Villa.

Almost 30 years later, the PP of Bilbao aspires to keep its three councilors in a Consistory controlled by the PNV that intends to achieve an absolute majority and that will repeat its government agreement with the Basque PSOE. An alliance between nationalists and socialists that goes beyond their agreements in the Basque institutions to become, according to Iturgaiz, the pillar of the “whitening” of EH Bildu.

“PNV and PSE allow unrepentant terrorists to rule in our institutions”, Iturgaiz has verified. The leader of the Basque PP has recalled the agreements between PNV, PSE-EE and EH Bildu in Basque towns such as Irún, Eibar, Nanclares de la Oca or Laguardia. Iturgaiz has personalized in Pedro Sánchez this strategy of “whitening” of Bildu. “Not a single lesson from those who bleach Bildu,” Iturgaiz stated, referring to Pedro Sánchez.