José María Aznar opened this Friday the PP campaign in the Region of Murcia with a direct attack on Pedro Sánchez. In a lunch with militants and sympathizers in Cartagena, the former president called for a "responsible vote" to "oust Sánchez, because, if not, he will sell the country". He said this at El Paraíso restaurant, accompanied by the Murcian president, Fernando López Miras, and the mayor of Cartagena, Noelia Arroyo.
In his speech, Aznar assured that a new coalition led by Sánchez would end the constitutional system. He placed the Executive's agreements with EH Bildu and the parliamentary support of ERC at the center of his attack. According to the former president, Sánchez would recognize as many nations as nationalist parties he needed to govern and would turn Spain into a confederation. Faced with this scenario, he called for a "strong and supported" Government that would begin to "rebuild the State" from day one and described Alberto Núñez Feijóo as a "responsible, serious" leader.
Aznar calls the arrival of migrants in Ceuta an "invasion"
"He has tolerated the invasion and has sided with the invader," Aznar said of the Government when referring to the entries on July 30 and 31 in Ceuta, in which at least 88 people died, according to the balance collected by RTVE. The former president used the same term that Santiago Abascal used from Ceuta in August and that Feijóo employed in Congress in September. Documents published by Moncloa show that the CNI warned the Government Delegation of the calls on social networks the day before and sent an urgent note to the Moroccan intelligence services.
Aznar linked the Ceuta crisis and the Urda railway accident, in which 69 people died, to a loss of confidence in the Government. The Toledo accident has marked the last weeks of the pre-campaign and has led to the resignation of Óscar Puente as Minister of Transport, announced after appearing for almost five hours before the Permanent Deputation of Congress.
The former president has also maintained that European funds "are in private pockets or squandered", without identifying in the statements collected by Europa Press which items or beneficiaries he had in mind. The Government submitted the seventh and last payment request of the Recovery Plan, for 25,861 million euros, to the European Commission on September 30. Aznar has also reproached the Executive for the lack of planning in security and artificial intelligence, two areas in which the Government approved strategies in 2021 and 2024, respectively.
López Miras promises a water plan in Feijóo's first hundred days
Housing has also entered the rally. Aznar has included the Puerta del Sol encampment in his list of challenges and has protested because, in his opinion, "property owners are called criminals." He said this a day after the Permanent Deputation validated the decree that allows extending certain rental contracts for two years and limits the rent increase to 2% during the extension.
The most concrete commitment of the event was made by López Miras, who assured that Feijóo will present a national water plan in his first hundred days if he comes to power. The Murcian president has defended that the Tagus-Segura transfer "is not to be touched" and has vindicated Aznar's National Hydrological Plan, whose articles on the Ebro transfer were repealed by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's Government in 2004. This same week, the Segura Hydrographic Confederation has informed the Region that supply and irrigation are guaranteed for the 2026-2027 hydrological year despite the breakdowns that have interrupted shipments.
Arroyo has asked his people to campaign "door to door" in a constituency that distributes ten deputies and in which the PP obtained four in 2023, compared to three for the PSOE, two for Vox and one for Sumar. The PP has scheduled a second event for Aznar and López Miras this afternoon in Molina de Segura, together with mayor José Ángel Alfonso. This Saturday, Santiago Abascal is scheduled to open the far-right campaign in the region with a rally in Murcia.
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