Aznar describes as an "autocratic reaction" that the Government accuses him of being a coup leader for calling to protest against an amnesty

He sees "unlikely" that elections will be repeated because Sánchez will pay "any price to remain in power"

The former president of the Government José María Aznar has described as "autocratic reactions" the accusations of being a coup leader that the Government of Pedro Sánchez has directed against him for calling for citizen mobilization against a possible amnesty for the 'procés'.

"They are autocratic reactions, typical of an autocracy, which considers that anyone who does not agree with those in the Government is anti-Spanish, fascist or coup plotter," Aznar considered in an interview this Thursday on Cadena Cope, reported by Europe Press.

Aznar has asked himself "what moral and ethical stature" are the members of the Government who have accused him of inciting the coup "knowing" that his words had no such intention in any way. "I'm not going to waste time and I'm not going to contribute even a minute to diverting attention, which is his intention," he added.

He has stated that he is aware of having said "what he had to say" and that "many Spaniards" think: that the amnesty is "outside the Constitution" and that he wants to use it politically to "exonerate and cleanse coup plotters convicted of a coup State or who are outside Spain, they are fugitives", in reference to the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont.

Aznar has insisted that the amnesty would be a "destructive element of the constitutional system" and has appealed to "citizen responsibility" in the face of a "critical moment" that "affects everyone", since he sees Spain "at existential risk" and in a process of "national deconstruction."

"Politically, in Spain we have reached a breaking point," said Aznar, to criticize that Sánchez is trying to continue leading the Government by negotiating an amnesty and while the independence movement is also asking for a self-determination referendum. "Neither of the two things fit into the Constitution," he warned.

Thus, he has considered that "appealing to civic energies and citizen responsibility" is "the most democratic thing there can be." "And that is the civic demand for responsibility that every citizen has in the face of a democracy and its system of coexistence," she added.

Granting an amnesty, Aznar has argued, would be an "invitation" to the independentists "to do it again." "And one amnesty was approved, why not two," he added.

"SOLID" RELATIONSHIP WITH BEANS

Asked if his call for mobilization has personally influenced the PP to call a protest event for Sunday the 24th in Madrid, Aznar responded that "it has nothing to do with it", that the party "makes its decisions" and this was " taken a while ago" and it seems "very good".

The former leader of the 'popular' has advanced that if the Popular Party asks him to go to the event, "of course" he will be there, because he "completely agrees" with the decision to convene.

Questioned about his relationship with Alberto Núñez Feijóo, he stated that "it could not be more solid or better." In this sense, he has criticized that "people" try to "invent loopholes", "because there are none."

AN ELECTORAL REPETITION IS UNLIKELY

Aznar has stressed that the PSOE lost the elections, has regretted that it wants to govern with an "immense coalition of losers" and has emphasized that before the general elections it was already known what the "price" that the independentistas were going to demand.

Regarding whether he believes that the elections will be repeated due to lack of agreement, he has considered it "unlikely", since he sees it as more likely that the current Government will pay "any price to remain in power."

Aznar has stated that the PSOE has stopped being a constitutional and center-left pillar by preferring to agree with Bildu, Junts or ERC. "Sánchez is not a captive of the separatists, he is their accomplice, he has chosen them as partners," he lamented.

From his point of view, if Sánchez is inaugurated "his mandate does not have to be ungovernable", because all the parties that would be behind it have a "very clear" interest in it lasting, from the objective of "being there and destroying all those to dissent," as he said.

And he has commented that lately he has not spoken with his predecessor in office, Felipe González, although he has highlighted that he agrees with many socialist leaders in the diagnosis of the situation.

CO-OFFICIAL LANGUAGES

Aznar has criticized the implementation of the use of co-official languages ​​in Congress: "It seems very good to me that in autonomous communities there are their own languages, since they are co-official languages", but "in the Congress of Deputies they must speak in the common language, Spanish, in which we all understand each other".

For the former president, Congress from now on is going to become a "grotesque spectacle" when deputies have to wear earpieces and depend on translators.