The PP warns that if the “anti-politics” triumph, the most “radical” will win

Borja Sémper affectionately greets Ana Iribar, widow of Gregorio Ordóñez. / EFE

Sémper warns that “anger is not solved with more anger” and that “some people come with gasoline to solve people’s problems”

The PP spokesman for the electoral campaign, Borja Sémper, warned yesterday that if “anti-politics triumphs, the most radical and kaffirs will triumph” and called for an immediate turn in Spanish politics, from the next municipal and regional elections in May. “We need to turn politics in Spain like a sock,” he proposed.

According to the new spokesman for the popular, there are words that are wearing out, that are losing their meaning “the result of handling by irresponsible politicians” and he cited the example of the term “freedom”, which he asked to vindicate.

Sémper, in the first edition of the Gregorio Ordóñez School, saw other dangers, such as “exacerbated populism and nationalism” that he considered united by “discomfort with the complexity of pluralistic societies.” His formula, before this photograph, involves clinging “to the good and reasonable ideas of the PP” and “not giving up, not looking like those kaffirs.”

With an undisguised gaze on Vox, on one side, and on the other side on Podemos, he warned that “there are those who seek to widen the social rift with the determined will to divide and tense society.” A game that “we know where it takes us”.

After a few years away from politics, Sémper did not avoid doing some self-criticism. “We haven’t always gotten everything right in the past, but what was important before is now necessary.” He drew a road map for his changes. Basically, he asked his formation to move away from the “Sánchez style” and strengthen the institutions so that citizens feel that they belong “to everyone.”

What Sémper came to propose in San Sebastián is that the popular discourse leave dissatisfaction behind and revolve around illusion. The idea, in his own words, is to “banish the angry” and “draw an exciting Spain.” The main reason is that “anger is not solved with more anger” and “some people come with gasoline to solve people’s problems. A complicated change in an increasingly tense and polarized political climate, and at the gates of several electoral appointments. “It’s not going to be easy,” he acknowledged.

For his part, the president of the Basque PP, Carlos Iturgaiz, criticized that the PNV “mucks everything up” and recalled the prison sentences imposed on those responsible for the “Case of Miguel”, which he described as “the biggest case of corruption in the Basque Country with label of the PNV». “Political responsibilities dot the PNV leadership, which has been covering up and protecting the main person responsible for the plot,” he added.

Iturgaiz – who transferred his “affection and support” to the jeltzale mayor in Ibarra Juan Luis Cid, attacked last week “by radicals” – sees in “all cases of corruption in the Basque Country the roots of the same trunk, which is called PNV.” And he demanded a change in the municipal and regional elections. “I ask Basque society to keep its eyes wide open in these May elections and not fall into the victimhood of the PNV, in that victimizing litany of theirs, saying that if they are not voted for, Bildu will win.”

According to Iturgaiz, “if the PNV wins, it will carry out the same nationalist policies as Bildu with the sole objective of breaking Spain and for our land to walk the terrible path of Catalan nationalism.” Already in a national key, he trusted that the electoral appointment of May will be the “prelude to the defeat of Sánchez.”

Ana Iribar: “Only a cowardly bullet could stop Gregorio”

Ana Iribar, widow of Gregorio Ordóñez, stressed yesterday that “only a cowardly bullet could stop the unstoppable force” of the parliamentarian and deputy mayor of San Sebastián assassinated by ETA 28 years ago. In the first edition of the Gregorio Ordóñez School held this weekend in San Sebastián, Iribar recalled her husband as “very vehement when it comes to defending her principles and a man with a great sense of humor and a lot of constant work ». In her opinion, “it was a mixture of passion, enthusiasm, believing in what she defended, making a good diagnosis, seeing what society and its neighbors needed to be better.” Iribar recalled some personal passages from her, such as that “I fell in love with him immediately, the day I met him.”