The popular Jorge Azcón presents his coalition government with Vox in Aragon as “reformist and focused”

The PP candidate, Jorge Azcón, has asked this Wednesday for the vote for his inauguration as president of Aragon, presenting his coalition agreement with Vox as a “reformist and focused project, based on the values ​​of European liberal humanism.” Azcón, who was forced to accept a government pact with the ultra party after the latter refused to facilitate his investiture with an abstention, has tried to explain his turn before the regional courts by assuring that on May 28 the Aragonese clearly said that “they wanted a change” and that this change “should be led by the Popular Party, reaching agreements with other political formations.” Fulfillment of that democratic mandate, he has concluded, is “a governance pact that encompasses the forces located between the center and the right of the hemicycle.”

Azcón has thus tried to place his government pact with Vox — which will have a vice presidency and two councils in the future executive — and his investiture agreement with the Aragonese Regionalist Party (PAR) at the same level. “My thanks to PAR and Vox, the two formations with which we have finally reached agreements (…) That will allow us to give the people of Aragón a solid, stable and, above all, effective government”, he said. “The three formations that have reached these two agreements are different, with different ideological positions that we do not renounce, but as a Government we will unequivocally defend the agreements reached and we will work in harmony to carry them out,” he stressed.

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The harmony between the supposed three government partners has lasted very little. The Vox spokesman and next vice president, Alejandro Nolasco, has made it clear that his party does not feel compromised by the agreement reached by the PP with the PAR. “We cannot be part of an agreement that we have not been part of. We only take responsibility for what we have signed, ”he declared. And he added, in case there were any doubts: “The agreement that will make Mr. Azcón president is ours.”

Azcón will be invested this Thursday as Aragonese president with the 28 votes of the PP, the seven of Vox and one of the PAR. The latter was not necessary, since the entire opposition (PSOE, Chunta Aragonesista, Teruel Existe, Podemos and IU) has 31 seats. The support of the Aragonese Regionalist Party (PAR), agreed in extremis by the PP 24 hours before the start of the debate, has served, according to the left, to “whiten” Azcón’s pact with the ultra party; or, in the words of the Aragonese deputy Alberto Izquierdo, “to give it color”.

The latter has not shown concern about the fact that Vox does not assume its pact with the PP. “The president (Azcón) is the one who will have to comply with what he has signed. The problems that he may have with his government partner do not matter to us, ”he assured. Izquierdo has not wanted to confirm if the PAR will occupy various general directorates in the coalition government, but Norlasco —who has taken it for granted— has warned that it will be in the ministries that correspond to the PP, not in those of Vox.

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There are significant differences between the pact signed with the ultra party and the one signed with the PAR. In the latter, for example, the PP is committed to the “fight against gender violence, in compliance with the State pact on the matter”, a concept that does not appear in its agreement with Vox.

The PP candidate for the Presidency of Aragon, Jorge Azcón, and the leader of Vox in the Community, Alejandro Nolasco, upon their arrival at the investiture plenary session of the former, this Wednesday, in the regional Parliament, in Zaragoza. JAVIER BELVER (EFE)

At the beginning of his speech, Azcón wanted to reassure those who fear that his understanding with Vox would weaken the fight against gender violence, condemning the latest sexist murders “This unjustifiable violence suffered by women is an intolerable social scourge, and the obligation of institutions and public administrations is to denounce it, condemn it and fight it with all available legal instruments and resources”, he stated. The Vox deputies have not applauded these words, but Nolasco has downplayed the gesture, assuring that his party condemns “all forms of violence.”

The Vox leader has stressed that “I would not remove a comma” from the speech of the PP candidate, who “has reeled off a large part of the 80 points” of the government agreement with his party, but has admitted that he has indeed raised some issues at fault. “What Mr. Azcón has not said today we will say tomorrow,” he added, referring to the speech by the spokespersons for the groups scheduled for this Thursday, before the vote.

Azcón makes obvious commitments with Vox

Among the issues that Azcón has ignored is his commitment to repeal Aragon’s democratic memory law or to reform the trans-regional law. What the candidate has committed to is a drastic tax cut, arguing that the Aragonese pay 170 euros a year more than other Spaniards and are “those who receive the worst public services.” Among other measures, he has promised to lower the regional section of personal income tax, gradually eliminate the inheritance and gift tax and raise the minimum exemption from wealth tax to 700,000 euros.

Azcón has opted to promote education and private health, advocating for the free choice of educational center, “education of excellence” and the progressive inclusion of the baccalaureate in the concert system; as well as “public-private collaboration” in health matters, because “the patient does not care exactly who treats him or who operates on him.” In a solemn manner, he has expressed his “unwavering commitment to increase each year health spending above the average budget decrease of the community.”

The PP candidate for the presidency of Aragon has concluded his speech by offering the PSOE two State pacts: one on health and the other on regional financing. However, throughout his speech, he has shown himself to be very belligerent with the Socialists and has announced the creation of a commission of investigation into alleged irregularities by the government of still President Javier Lambán in the implementation of renewable energy in the region. Alleging that, in order to combat depopulation, the national president of the PP has promised to raise to 20% the bonus of labor costs for companies that settle in Teruel, he stated: “For the good of Spain, I wish and hope that Alberto Núñez Feijóo is the next president of the Government of the Nation”, he said. “But if that hope cannot materialize in the coming months, if unfortunately those who aspire to the destruction of Spain and those who play dangerously with them succeed, I will continue to claim that aid in full and complete.”

Despite the fact that the PP criticized him when he was in opposition, Azcón has admitted that he will go ahead with the Lambán Government’s Extraordinary Highway Plan, alleging that it is “technically unfeasible to go back”; and he has promised to suppress the commissioners of the 2030 Agenda, childhood and depopulation, just as he agreed with Vox.

On the other hand, he has tiptoed over the transfer of the Ebro, the issue that confronts him head-on with his new government partner, and has preferred to charge against his socialist predecessor, assuring that he renounced undertaking hydraulic works that would allow the reserve to be reached in the medium term. water that appears in the Statute of Autonomy: 6,550 cubic hectometres. “This is an inalienable strategic issue that my government will defend without fissures,” he solemnly proclaimed. The truth is that the rejection of the transfer does not appear expressly in any of the pacts that the PP has signed, although the PAR deputy has put his party as guarantor that “there will be no transfer of the Ebro in Aragon.” The complete opposite of what Vox publicly defends.

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