Aznar and Rajoy warn PP of internal battles during PP Feijo’s coronation: “This is an irreversible bet”

From one house, by video conference, at the last minute because of the untimely positive for Covid. Second, live and live at the Seville Market, which hosts the XX National Congress of the popular party (extraordinary). The two former presidents of the government brought to Spain by the rightists intervened on the first day of the conclave, which will entrust the enthronement of Alberto Nunez Feijo to the leaders of the party they once led. Jose Maria Aznar, from afar, warns that the Galician leader is an “irreversible bet” before the start of the election cycle. Mariano Rajoy, at a plenary session of more than 3,000 delegates, argues that the “controversy where it is not” has not been found.

The first to intervene was Aznar, who recalled a congress held in the same city in 1990 and which served to restore the PP after the fiasco of Antonio Hernandez Mancha. The former president has assured that the “task” he has before Feijo PP is “no different” from the one he then undertook. “We need the same generosity, ambition and responsibility as then,” he said. “But we can not lose. “And I’m sure we’re not going to fail,” he concluded.

In addition, Aznar wanted to say that the commitment to Feio to replace the retired Pablo Casado, who was not present at the auditorium, was “irreversible”. “We are going to impose a great responsibility on him. “If we give him responsibility, we have to support him,” he said. “Your success is everyone’s success. “This should be an irreversible bet,” he said.

Aznar addressed the president of the PP, who will be tomorrow, in a few words: “You have been in politics for a long time and you know the terrain well. This party responds; In the strongest moments he responded like a solid piece. I ask everyone for the greatest unity and the most clear and firm support for this new stage in the party, led by Alberto Nunez Feijo.

Aznar’s warnings may sound strange without an alternative candidate in Congress, and in which no one has even uttered a word that could be interpreted as questioning Feijo’s suitability. But Rajoy is lecturing abundantly on the internal rift that has led the PP to its worst crisis in decades.

The former president of Galicia, who will take office this Saturday, called on the party to avoid divisions and focus on their common issues: “Let us not debate what we share, let us not seek controversy there. “No, let’s not argue about what we always agreed on.”

Thus, Rajoy demanded a connection with Feio, so that there was no doubt as to whether or not he was. “This congress is the result of a common diagnosis and a common solution,” he said of Cassado leaving. “We came in united and will come out better, stronger and more excited to fulfill the task that Spain expects of us,” he assured. He said of Feijo: “We met to choose the best leader and to tell the Spaniards that change with him is not only possible but close. That’s our message and the hope of millions of Spaniards. ”

“People from very different backgrounds vote for us and all of them should feel represented in this house,” he added. “Liberals, Conservatives or Christian Democrats. We do not ask anyone to give up their ideas or beliefs. All always fit in this house. We want an open game and not an exclusive club. It is a very big house, with room for everyone. “PP should be a meeting place for the majority of Spanish society,” he concluded.

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Both said a few words to the outgoing president. Jose Maria Aznar, who was one of his biggest supporters and for whom he worked while leaving the Moncloa Palace, wanted to “thank Pablo Casado, who took the step when he had to step down.” “He took on this responsibility when it was not easy or flattering. He had the most sectarian and radical government in Spain. “By resigning, he has given way to this new situation,” he said.

And he was satisfied with what sounded like a rebuke: “Wherever you are, thank you Pablo for your efforts.” Aznar was expected to attend the Cassado’s plenary session, but he did so afterwards. When the speech was delivered, the outgoing president explained ironically: “I followed Aznar’s speech, from where I was told. That’s what he’s supposed to be president of. ”

Aznar was one of the few speakers who remembered the resigned president. The new generation president, Bea Panjul, has done this before; And the Autonomous Presidents of Castile and Leონისn, Alfonso Fernდესndez Manieko and Ceuta Juan Jesუსs Vivas.

So is Rajoy, who was the first PP president to give him the post Executive As Deputy Secretary of Communications of the Party. “Principles and common history unite us,” he said, quoting Aznar, Hernandez Mancha and Pablo Casado as the party’s last leaders. “Pablo Casado was leading our party in moments of extreme difficulty,” he admitted. “I especially appreciate his loyalty, dedication, courage and enthusiasm when it comes to defending our party’s acronym. “Thank you very much,” he explained.