Zapatero calls for mobilization as in 2004 against "the deception and impudence" of Aznar and Ayuso

The campaign has muddied a bit more in recent days. The leadership of the PP is looking for a quiet final stretch, without anything to cloud a trend that they believe is very positive for them. Its leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, concentrates on talking about taxes and the Falcon, the official plane that carries Pedro Sánchez, an issue that he especially likes and recalls the campaign with which he came to power in Galicia in 2009, in which he accused the socialist Emilio Pérez Touriño of having a better official car than Barack Obama's. something very far from reality. However, the PP campaign is not made or controlled only by Feijóo.

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Aznar predicts "consultations" in Euskadi and Catalonia and a "release" of terrorists with Pedro Sánchez

The former president of the Government José María Aznar predicted on Tuesday "consultations" in Euskadi and Catalonia and a "release" of ETA terrorists with Pedro Sánchez.

Last week, the popular saw how the Bildu issue got out of hand because the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, said that "ETA is alive", and even came to face directly with the president of the association of victims Covite, Consuelo Ordóñez. And now it is José María Aznar who has accelerated the revolutions again, with the risk for the PP that this, by reaction, will cause the mobilization of the left-wing vote, which according to the polls has not just been activated. The former president of the Popular Government came to say on Tuesday in Bilbao that if the right does not manage to end Sanchismo and the coalition formed by "the party of Sánchez and communists" is repeated, with the support of "Catalan separatists and former terrorists of Sortu and the punitions seekers of the PNV", the "price" to pay will be "a general release of terrorists in prison" and "consultations" in the Basque Country and Catalonia.

Neither of the two scenarios seem on the table: it is the judges who can free the terrorists, and with both the PP and the PSOE in the Executive, all are serving their long sentences in full without having achieved any benefit beyond the approach to prisons in the Basque Country, something that the law obliges, and more after the disappearance of ETA, and that Aznar himself did massively when the band was still killing to facilitate a truce.

The PSOE immediately saw the strength of Aznar's excess and took out to answer his ideal counterpart, former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, who never criticized the PP when he was head of the opposition for its policy of rapprochement of prisoners or dialogue with the gang. Sánchez has not yet entered this battle and has concentrated on a positive campaign talking about health, the economy, feminism. But Zapatero has entered with everything from Valencia, epicenter of the great battle of the autonomic. "I have heard José María Aznar say that if Sánchez and the communists continue there will be a general release of ETA prisoners. I have also heard it said that ETA is alive and I must say that the PP does not come out of deception and impudence. It has been like this for 20 years, since he deceived us all with the attack of March 2004, it does not come out of deception and impudence, "said Zapatero on Wednesday at an event with the Valencian president, Ximo Puig, and the deputy mayor of the capital, Sandra Gómez.

"The truth is that ETA disappeared, that that attack was not ETA as we were told and that, of course, it is a big lie that there will be a new release of prisoners. Therefore, also in these elections we vote between truth and the defense of what has been an end to violence as a collective success and deception and impudence; That is also voted, "said the former president in the Valencian capital. "I ask the majority of citizens, out of respect for the truth and coexistence, to vote against deception and impudence," he concluded.

The mud is crossed. Ayuso, who always seeks a clash with the government to achieve national focus, has expanded this time and has gone against the PNV, which he has openly called racist. Feijóo has so far avoided criticizing the PNV and has even met with its leader, Andoni Ortuzar, to seek a possible agreement in the future, after the generals, but the Madrid president has launched this missile against the Basque nationalists and Ortuzar has come out to answer. The leader of the PNV believes that it is "an injustice and an exit of incomprehensible tone" that Ayuso has taken advantage of the case of racist insults to Real Madrid footballer Vinicius to accuse his formation of racism. In an interview in El Periódico, the president of Madrid said: "There is racist behavior also in politics. There are in the PNV, it is the foundation of the Basque Nationalist Party, there they take it."

In an interview granted to Antena 3 and collected by Europa Press, Ortuzar has referred to the case of insults to Vinicius in Mestalla, during a match against Valencia, to remember what happened with Iñaki Williams, of Athletic Club, who suffered racist attacks in the Espanyol field, and denounced. "It is a wise measure because we have to start putting measures and stop this type of behavior. I am one of those who believe in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and that we are all equal, regardless of race, origin, religion, gender or sexual condition. We have to be uncompromising on these kinds of issues," he said.

The excesses of Ayuso sometimes drag the entire PP. The president of Andalusia, Juanma Moreno, asked by journalists about this matter, has tried to escape saying that he had not seen the statements of his Madrid partner, but then has entered the same garden: "We have seen that some leaders of the PNV in the past spoke of the supremacy of the Basques and the RH, we saw it with [Xabier] Arzalluz. Although that does not mean that the current PNV is racist, "he said to try to get out of the way. Aznar and Ayuso thus manage to muddy the campaign even among their own comrades although they had other plans at the beginning.

He receives every afternoon the bulletin Diario electoral, written by the deputy director of EL PAÍS Claudi Pérez. And here, the x-ray of all the communities that go to the polls.

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