Spain has reached an “existential moment” because of challenges from separatists and extremists that may destroy the country’s unity if the Socialist-led coalition government remains in power, José María Aznar, the former prime minister, has warned.
In an interview with The Times, the former leader of the conservative Popular Party (PP) said that the political allies of Pedro Sánchez, the prime minister, “wanted to destroy the national system” and that his government had damaged the country’s institutions.
Aznar, 70, who is on the board of News Corp, the parent company of The Times, lamented “these times of confrontation, fragmentations and divisions”.
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