The President of the Government of Aragon, Jorge Azcón, has promoted a campaign of “hope and proposals” and rejected the “contempt”, although he considered that the general secretary of the PSOE Aragón and socialist candidate for the presidency of the regional executive, Pilar Alegría, “thinks that these will be insults due to the situation of the PSOE.”
This is what Azcón made this Wednesday, December 24, in statements to the media during his visit to the Luis Aula retirement home and day center in Zaragoza, together with the Minister of Social Affairs and Family, Carmen Susín.
“It should be a campaign of realities and truth. I want to carry out a campaign in which we tell what happened in Aragon and what we want to happen in Aragon,” said the president of the regional executive.
On the contrary, Alegría “thinks that it will be a campaign of insults because of the situation in which the Socialist Party finds itself. They are interested in polarization, noise and tension,” Azcón said.
“Alegría must mobilize its electorate because even for the Socialists it is very difficult to trust a party that is surrounded by corruption, victimized by sexual scandals and that is characterized by constantly lying and not defending the Aragonese,” said the regional president.
According to Azcón, Alegría is therefore “representing herself” when she “talks about expecting a campaign of insults,” but “I have no intention of insulting anyone, I have the intention of making proposals, telling the truth about the two years of our government and saying what proposals we want for the next four years.”
DEBATE
On the other hand, Azcón has explained that the tradition of the Autonomous Community is that “personal debates are carried out on Aragonese public television,” which he considered “logical and normal,” recalling that this has happened in all electoral campaigns.
In this way, the Aragonese president responded to RTVE’s proposal to hold a “face-to-face meeting” between PP and PSOE, that is, between Jorge Azcón and Pilar Alegría, on the occasion of the elections in Aragon on February 8th.
Jorge Azcón recalled that it was he who proposed a “personal” debate with the socialist candidate for the presidency of the Government of Aragon, “but I still don’t know if Pilar Alegría wants to accept the proposal or not”, in any case he has announced that in his case he will accept debates because “I have always done that.”
He recalled that he “refused to have personal debates” ahead of a local election in which both were running for mayor of Zaragoza.
However, he has insisted that “first the debates on Aragonese public television will be closed because it is here, and then we will talk about the debates on other media channels”, that is why he prioritized the “personal” broadcast on Aragonese television and then moved on to RTVE.
END OF YEAR SPEECH
In another sense, in his end-of-year speech, the President of the Government of Aragon assured that he would “respect” the electoral laws and announced that it would be an “institutional message to wish all Aragonese a Happy New Year”.
The regional leader thus referred to the request made this Tuesday by the Socialist spokesman in the Cortes of Aragon, Fernando Sabés, to the electoral board to take urgent precautionary measures for the planned speech of the President at the end of the year, since this year coincides with the election call for the first time in history, arguing that “this serves to take stock of what has been done and to make the announcements that he considers appropriate for the following year.”
“It is obvious that the traditional message of all the Presidents of Government of all the Autonomous Communities is to wish a Happy New Year and to be able to report what happened in the Autonomous Community,” Azcón admitted, adding that “since it cannot be otherwise, it will be shaped by the electoral laws.”
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