18/02/2012
http://prensa.fundacionfaes.org/2012/FEBRERO/555.jpg! "We have an extraordinary country which has decided to move forward. We have a great party and a great government prepared to assume their responsibilities" "Mine is no groundless hope but the expression of a confidence full of reasons" "The message conveyed from this Congress is crystal clear: we are determined to do what Spain needs. And that is called patriotism" "The Spanish people have made it abundantly clear that there"s only one road to get out of the crisis: the road of national unity and a determined and integrating leadership" "The Government has the stability and institutional support needed to undertake a deeply reforming process awaited and wanted by our country" "We need to regenerate our State and rise it with the great nations demanding institutions and people that respect and protect it" "Never before had the polls given a mandate so reaffirmed and distinct. And therefore, so precise and demanding. A mandate for good politics" "We are going to be the party and the Government of change. To get out of this nightmare. And achieve the future we are looking for" "Spain has shown a unique resistance before that long winter of our economy, our civility and our institutions" "I don"t wish to insist on the inheritance we received. Only the necessary to prevent anyone from coming now to try to rewrite such a recent story" "The real story is already written: we have left behind the worst government of Spanish democracy" "Some months ago, in Malaga, I said the time for Mariano Rajoy had finally come. Now, in Seville, I say that the time has come for Javier Arenas" "You as well, Cherines -Mercedes Fern?ndez- in Asturias, I wish you all the luck and success" Fraga.- "Today, here in Seville, you will understand the special emotion I feel remembering and paying tribute to his immense figure" "He is among those responsible of the Spanish political transition and of the passing of our Constitution" ETA.- "It"s time to repeat to terrorists a very simple message: we win, they, lose. Without any confusion at all" "The Spanish people have decided to remember the dignity and justice deserved by victims, and apply on the executioners the full force of the law" Madrid, 18.02.12.- Jos? Mar?a Aznar, President of FAES Foundation and Honorary President of the Partido Popular, has conveyed a massage of hope and confidence in his address at the 17th National Congress of the Partido Popular in Seville: "We have an extraordinary country which has decided to move forward. We have a great party and a great government prepared to assume their responsibilities". "Mine is no groundless hope but the expression of a confidence full of reasons", he declared. For Aznar, "The message conveyed from this Congress is crystal clear: we are determined to do what Spain needs. And that is called patriotism". In his address, Aznar recalled the founder president of the PP, Manuel Fraga: "Today, here in Seville, you will understand the special emotion I feel remembering and paying tribute to his immense figure". "He is among those responsible of the Spanish political Transition and of the passing of our Constitution that enables our coexistence in freedom", he stated. Aznar has wished the best of luck and success to the candidates of the PP in the next regional elections in Andalusia and Asturias: Javier Arenas and Mercedes Fern?ndez. "Some months ago, in Andalusia as well, in Malaga, I said the time for Mariano Rajoy had finally come. Now, in Seville, I say that the time has come for Javier Arenas", he remarked. With regard to ETA, Aznar stated that "It"s time to repeat to terrorists a very simple message: we win, they, lose. Without any confusion at all". The former Prime Minister of Spain stressed that "We have decided to persevere until the total and unconditional defeat of terrorism. To keep the memory of the dignity and justice deserved by victims, and apply on the executioners the full force of the law". Click here to read Aznar"s full address at the 17th National Congress of the Partido Popular (in Spanish)