The plenary session of the Cortes of Aragon brought together once again the regional president, Jorge Azcón, and the spokesperson for Vox, Alejandro Nolasco, in a face-to-face meeting that once again draws a scenario for an electoral appeal. The ultra leader concluded that the popular leader “wants to go to elections”, and he supported his statement: “It will be good news because we will listen to the Aragonese”, he clarified.
The conclusion can be experienced this Friday morning, when the second meeting announced between the PP and Vox will be held to try to advance a budgetary negotiation for which a priori they do not see much outcome.
The first blow was dealt by Azcón, who attacked Vox and the PSOE at the same time. He did so in an appearance at his own request to talk about the budgets, but in which he said the least about the budgets themselves.
The head of the Executive addressed the far right to demand a “possible agreement”, which would oblige Alejandro Nolasco’s party to ask that questions of regional competence “and not those of ministries”, which be “within the framework of the law”, and that they constitute “a common minimum”. “If we are able and approve the budgets, there will be a good budget for Aragon. But if they do not want it and we are forced to call elections, it will be good news because we will listen to the Aragonese, we will hear the opinion of Aragon and there will be a stronger government of Aragon, supported by the ballot boxes,” he said.
Azcón considered, in line with what has been stated in recent days, that it is “incomprehensible” that Vox rejects the budgets because they are “an improved version” of those of 2024, approved by the party of Alejandro Nolasco, and declared that the budgets must be based on “the lowest common denominator” and not on “maximum proposals”.
Regarding the Socialists, he continues to insist that “they are not trustworthy” and pointed out that the UCO of the Civil Guard registered this Thursday companies in Aragon “linked to the PSOE”, attacking the deputies of the Socialist group who looked at their cell phones “like Santos Cerdán before entering prison”. Azcón forgot that a few weeks ago he announced the Forestalia data centers in the province of Zaragoza.
“Your hand is not outstretched, it is burned, it is the tail of the scorpion, which we know will sting because that is its nature: you are lying, you are not trustworthy and it is impossible to trust the PSOE,” Azcón concluded.
A “blackmail”
The Vox spokesperson, for his part, believes that Azcón “wants to go to elections” based on his statements in plenary session. Assessments “as irrational as they are incoherent in their arguments”, which he interprets as “blackmail” and an “ultimatum” in response to which he demanded to see the budgets at the last meeting this Friday.
Nolasco admitted he was “surprised” by the “aggressiveness” he noted in the president and his declaration that he would not consider changing “not a single one of the 7,000 pages.” This led him to accuse the Aragonese PP of wanting to “protect” the entire “progressive agenda” and to classify it “among the thousand versions of the PP that exist in Spain, in the worst group of all, the PP of María Guardiola”, in reference to the president of the Junta of Extremadura.
“Azcón is trying to get us out of our heads so that we tell him that we will not attend the second scheduled budget meeting and that we can go out and talk about a “door slamming by Vox”, considered Nolasco. “But his strategy – he continued – will not work with us”.
Nolasco criticized the fact of not having received until now any communication from the presidential office: “This is the seriousness with which budgets are taken, a ‘powerpoint’ to present some general lines and quote a person in plenary session”, he said.
The leader of Vox in the Aragonese Parliament once again showed “relative optimism” before this Friday’s meeting: “Maybe tomorrow they will present me with the 7,000 pages, they will give me three or four hours to read them and they will want me to respond to them later. And he even appeared willing to extend the meeting: “I don’t care if it lasts 30 hours or two days and we have dinner there and go camping or whatever,” although he cautioned that they won’t support accounts they haven’t seen.
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