Aznar's foundation accuses Sánchez of collaborating with the "Nazis" of Junts for the debt relief

The foundation of former Prime Minister José María Aznar, FAES, has released this Tuesday, the eve of the debate between the Ministry of Finance and the autonomous communities on the Government's proposal to write off regional debt, a harsh statement in which it pressures the Popular Party barons to refuse to accept it. Although the most benefited in absolute terms, with the forgiveness of 18,791 million euros, would be Andalusia, governed by the PP, the foundation presents the plan as "the last bites" of the Government's investiture partners, whom it calls "Nazis" and describes the President of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, as a "second-rate Quisling", in reference to the Norwegian politician who collaborated with the German occupation of the country in the 1940s, staged a coup d'état and was invested as Prime Minister.

The FAES statement says that, thanks to the “doormat president”, the ERC leader Oriol Junqueras “is displaying like a hunting trophy a reduction of 17 billion euros of the regional debt so that the rest of the Spanish people pay for the embezzlement accumulated by a coup administration”. Junqueras was the first to speak of the reduction, which he agreed with the Government, but the proposal of these agreements is extendable to the territories of common regime and would mean removing from the communities a debt of more than 83 billion euros, 25% of the total they accumulate. After Andalusia (8.2 million inhabitants), the most benefited in absolute terms would be, in this order, Catalonia (7.4 million inhabitants); the Valencian Community (4.9 million inhabitants), and the Community of Madrid (6.3 million inhabitants). That is, three of the four regions that would have the most debt forgiven are in the hands of the PP. According to the central government's proposal, the amount forgiven for the territories governed by the Popular Party amounts to a total of 57.64 billion, that is, 84% of the 84.438 billion for the country as a whole.

For former President Aznar's foundation, however, this debt relief is a concession to the Catalan independence movement [which does not govern in Catalonia] and to those who compare it to Nazism: “Today is a good day —and tomorrow too— to rectify the Vichy submission of Moncloa to the Nazi herd that keeps Spain occupied only because it suits Sánchez to drag out another day a legislature without budgets, without a future and without honour. A good day to break with the Nazis who speak of the Spanish as 'retarded beasts', with the Nazis who rave about 'genetic proximities' to give a scientific veneer to the most repugnant supremacism, with the Bildu Gestapo, which presents lists full of ETA members and with the Sortu SS, which in 2021 elected a national secretariat full of terrorists among whom Arnaldo Otegi, recently acclaimed Reinchführer, is not the one with the most criminally accredited track record.