The former prime minister of the Government, José María Aznar, has highlighted the commitment of the leader of the Partido Popular, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to push through a major national water agreement during the first hundred days of his eventual term. "Water is the source of life and it is something we have to share. That is making a nation and solidarity," he said, defending a National Hydrological Plan that connects the different basins and makes it possible to distribute water resources in an equitable manner among all citizens.
Aznar has criticized that, out of "pure sectarianism," the previous hydrological plan was repealed and has reproached that, in 25 years, a solution of state-wide scope has not been put in place. "Sharing water is sharing the country," he insisted, referring to major hydraulic works developed in other States as a benchmark.
The former head of the Executive has also called for strengthening the solidity of the State, ensuring protection of the borders and guaranteeing compliance with the laws, as well as putting in place measures that increase the supply of land and facilitate access to housing. "Restoring the State is restoring the nation," he stressed, calling for political leadership with a historical perspective and a vision for the future to meet Spain's challenges.
He made these statements this Saturday in Albatera (Alicante), at an event with members and supporters of the Partido Popular, accompanied by the 'president' of the Generalitat and leader of the PPCV, Juanfran Pérez Llorca.
Commitment to water in the Vega Baja
In the water-related sphere, Pérez Llorca has stressed that "with water you do not play, with water you do not invent, water is life and it is guaranteeing the future of this land," and he has assured that the president of the Partido Popular, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, "will make a National Water Plan so that it is guaranteed in the Vega Baja."
The Valencian leader has recalled that Aznar "was the first to design a plan so that water would be guaranteed in the Vega Baja" and has criticized that the PSOE later repealed it. As he said, with Alberto Núñez Feijóo in charge of the central Government, the PP will promote "a national water plan that will guarantee forever, with rigor and with technical criteria, the water in the Vega Baja."
Criticism of the PSOE over water policy and investments
The president of the PP in the province of Alicante, Toni Pérez, has recalled that José María Aznar "was the president capable of pushing forward a National Hydrological Plan because he understood that the good of Spain is above any other consideration".
Pérez has lamented that José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero eliminated that plan and has denounced that, with Pedro Sánchez, an approximately 350 million euro European investment has been lost, intended for the wastewater treatment plants of Monte Orgegia and Rincón de León. "That is what the PSOE has done for this land, nothing," he has laid down.
Immigration and call for mobilization
On immigration matters, Pérez Llorca has defended management based on order and respect for legality. "Here in the Vega Baja we suffer this a lot; we defend a regulated, ordered immigration," he stated.
The president of the PPCV has underlined that those who come to Spain to work and develop their life project must do so "by accepting our law and our customs," and he has reiterated that "it is not being racist, it is regulating a very serious and very grave problem that Spain is suffering".
For his part, Toni Pérez has warned that "on 29N the province of Alicante, the Comunitat Valenciana, and the Spain that all of us have helped to build are at stake".
The mayor of Albatera and general secretary of the PP in the province, Ana Serna, has denounced the "abandonment and punishment" of Alicante by "a Government that looks the other way and does not know what the problems of Alicante are, and that's enough". For that reason, she has called to "talk in the ballot boxes on 29N" because "this is about Spain with Feijóo and something else, which has no qualifiers".
Defense of the constitutional system and Feijóo’s alternative
In his speech, Aznar has appealed to participation and to concentrate the vote in the Partido Popular on the next 29N in order to put an end to the Executive of Pedro Sánchez. "We are not facing just any elections; they are the most important in 50 years. We are betting on reaffirming our constitutional system or ending everything that we have built," he emphasized.
The former president has accused the current head of the Executive of sustaining a coalition "created to seize power, build a wall and exclude half of the Spaniards," "by buying the support of the separatists with amnesty for the coup plotters and negotiating with a fugitive from justice and with ETA’s heirs".
Given this scenario, Aznar has argued that Alberto Núñez Feijóo will set in motion a policy of reconstruction and of the state, aimed at restoring institutions and strengthening the nation.