Aznar attacks Sánchez: "If you make deals with criminals, don't be surprised if you end up in jail."

He criticizes the fact that current Spanish politics is "a section of the news report," something that is neither "a coincidence" nor "a matter of three crooks," but rather that "crookedness is structural to Sanchismo."

Former Prime Minister José María Aznar took advantage of his speech at the 21st National Congress of the People's Party (PP) this Friday to issue a warning to the Spanish government. "If you negotiate budgets in a prison, associate with inmates, and negotiate an amnesty with criminals, don't be surprised if you end up in jail, because that's your environment ."

Aznar harshly criticized Pedro Sánchez's administration and referred to last week's "unusual spectacle" of "criminals explaining to the courts how the law should be interpreted, claiming they drafted it."

He suggested that if the Government "was in such a hurry to release ETA members " it was because it was "making room" in the prisons, days after the former secretary general of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán , was sent to pretrial detention.

In his speech, he pointed out that current Spanish politics is "a section of the news report," something that is neither "a coincidence" nor "a matter of three crooks," but rather that "crookedness is structural to Sanchismo" and "goes beyond questions of private morality" with "a political significance."

He recalled that in 2018, the government went to Lledoners prison to negotiate "its first budget," after which "they took a run at it and gave the Penal Code to convicted criminals to rewrite to their liking," doing the same with "that official memory they have decreed." He also criticized the government for "allowing the political heirs of terror to rewrite history" in "the name of their victims, all Spaniards."

For all these reasons, he explained, "If you negotiate budgets in a prison, associate with inmates, and negotiate amnesties with criminals, don't be surprised if you end up in jail because that's your environment."

Aznar made it clear that "urgent change in Spain means that criminals stop sitting in offices legislating and end up in prison so the law can be applied to them," and concluded that for the "Sanchismo," "there is no possible reintegration."