Spain at systemic, historic risk of disintegration, warn former Prime Ministers

Quotes from José María Aznar (PP), Felipe González (PSOE) and Nicolás Redondo (PSOE, secretary general) sound alarm over consequences of Sánchez's amnesty deal with Puigdemont and the separatists.

Sep 17, 2023

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Senior former national politicians in Spain, no longer strictly bound by party discipline, are warning in radio interviews and opinion articles of historic, systemic, foundational level danger for the nation, the constitution and the rule of law over the proposed deal for a new Sánchez government that would see Catalan separatists, including Carles Puigdemont, amnestied, and the holding of some sort of vote on self-determination. “The country is facing a systemic risk”, said Jose María Aznar (PP). “Every 40 years, we make a great bonfire and burn it all down”, said Felipe González (PSOE), adding that the map of Spain hadn’t changed since 1517. It is “the biggest political attack on the 1978 democracy” that Nicolás Redondo, the former PSOE secretary general kicked out of his party this week, has ever seen.

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