The former president of the Government, José María Aznar, has appealed for mass participation and to concentrate the vote for the Partido Popular on the coming 29N with the aim of putting an end to the Executive of Pedro Sánchez. "This is not just any election, they are the most important in 50 years. We are betting on whether to reaffirm our constitutional system or to end everything that we have built," he stressed.
Aznar made himself heard this Saturday in Albatera (Alicante), during an event with members and supporters of the Partido Popular, where he was backed by the 'president' of the Generalitat and leader of the PPCV, Juanfran Pérez Llorca.
The former head of the Executive has held the current president of the Government responsible for sustaining a coalition "created to take power, raise a wall and exclude half of the Spaniards", "by buying the support of the separatists with an amnesty for the coup plotters and negotiating with a fugitive from justice and with ETA's heirs". As an alternative, he defended that Alberto Núñez Feijóo will put in motion a policy of reconstruction and of the State aimed at recovering the institutions and strengthening the nation.
In this context, Aznar has highlighted Feijóo's commitment to push forward, in the first hundred days of taking office, a major national water pact. "Water is the source of life and it is something that we have to share. That is building a nation and solidarity," he said, advocating for a National Hydrological Plan that connects basins and makes it possible to distribute water resources among all territories.
The former president has criticized that, "pure sectarianism", the previous hydrological plan were repealed and that in the last 25 years progress has not been made toward a solution of national scope. "Sharing water is sharing the country," he emphasized, referring to major hydraulic works carried out in other States as a point of reference.
Aznar also underscored the urgency of strengthening the solidity of the State, protecting the borders and enforcing the laws, in addition to developing measures to increase the supply of land and facilitate access to housing. "Recovering the State is recovering the nation," he stressed, calling for political leadership with a sense of history and a vision for the future to face Spain's challenges.
Commitment to water in the Vega Baja
For his part, Juanfran Pérez Llorca has assured that "you don't play with water, you don't invent with water; water is life and it is to guarantee the future of this land", and he has guaranteed that the leader of the Partido Popular, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, "will make a National Water Plan so that it is guaranteed in the Vega Baja".
Pérez Llorca has recalled that Aznar "was the first to design a plan so that water would be guaranteed in the Vega Baja" and he has lamented that the PSOE overturned it. He has insisted that, with Alberto Núñez Feijóo at the head of the Government of Spain, the PP will promote "a national water plan that forever, with rigor and technical criteria, guarantees water in the Vega Baja".
Likewise, the president of the PPCV has called for a migration policy grounded in order and respect for legality. "We suffer this a lot in the Vega Baja; we defend regulated, orderly immigration," he said.
Along these lines, he has defended that those who come to Spain to work and to develop their life project must do so "accepting our law and our customs" and he has reiterated that "it's not being racist; it's regulating a very serious and very grave problem that Spain is suffering".
Criticism of PSOE management in Alicante
The PP president in the province of Alicante, Toni Pérez, has recalled that José María Aznar "was the president capable of promoting a National Hydrological Plan because he understood that Spain's good is above any other consideration". He has lamented that José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero brought down that project and that, under the mandate of Pedro Sánchez, an investment of about 350 million euros destined for the Monte Orgegia and Rincón de León wastewater treatment plants has been lost. "This is what the PSOE has done for this land, nothing," he said.
Toni Pérez has also warned that "on 29N, the province of Alicante, the Comunitat Valenciana and the Spain that, together, we have helped build are at stake".
Along the same lines, the mayor of Albatera and general secretary of the PP in the province of Alicante, Ana Serna, has denounced the "abandonment and punishment" of the province by "a Government that looks the other way and doesn't know what the problems of Alicante are, and that's enough". For this reason, she has called for "talking at the polls on 29N" because "this is about Spain with Feijóo and something else, which has no labels".