He was the last to speak and the one who spoke the least, despite being the protagonist of the event, since his new book, The art of governing, of the Almuzara publishing house, directed by Manuel Pimentel, Minister of Labor with José María Aznar. And he did it in his language, Rajonian: “Sometimes it is urgent to wait”; I know that many people who voted for me and people who didn’t vote for me don’t think the same way, but everyone is as they are and I am as I am”; “Tariffs are bad for everyone, even that person you’re thinking of (Donald Trump).” He didn’t say “chisgarabís”, but he said “wardrobe”. And it provoked quite a few more laughs than the presentation of Aznar’s book, a few weeks ago, in the same space: the Rafael del Auditorium Pino, in Madrid. There were even friendlier faces: almost all of his cabinets from 2011 to 2018 accompanied him, including the former Interior Minister, Jorge Fernández Díaz, awaiting trial. And Aznar was not there, just as Rajoy was not present at Aznar’s presentation.
The former president, protected at the table by candidate Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Benigno Pendás, president of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, spoke about his book, something that the current leader of the PP has just done, who dedicated his speech to attacking the current head of the executive: “the negotiator of the censure motion (against Rajoy in 2018, in reference to José Luis Ábalos) could end up in prison” – and explaining everything he intends to do when he is evicted from La Moncloa. Rajoy warned against the danger of being carried away by populism, i.e. “extreme right, extreme left, extreme nothingness and extreme stupidity” and issued a warning to surfers: “An extremist cannot be opposed by another extremist, but rather by moderantism, common sense and common sense.”
The former Prime Minister took the opportunity to defend the King Emeritus, who was not invited by La Zarzuela to the institutional event on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the restoration of the monarchy in Spain: “I do not forget King Juan Carlos, who piloted the transition to democracy and gave us the best years of well-being in our country”.
