The Popular Party of Aragon almost made fun of the Inmaculada this Monday, hearing the press conference of Pilar Alegriaminister of Pedro Sanchez and, at the same time, candidate for the very likely early elections next February.
The environment of Jorge Azcon accuses the socialist of using her so-called “support” for the spending ceiling, before the 2026 budget, as a “tactic to avoid early elections” this would benefit the PP and “terrorize” the PSOE.
The leader of the Aragonese PSOE made this announcement, by surprise, this Monday, declaring that she wanted a budget “for everyone”. that he is not “linked to the extreme right” of Vox. But the PP considers this position as “an act of desperation”.
Sea cowboyspokesperson for the Aragonese government, said a few hours later that Alegría’s announcement had caused him “total disbelief” due to the “inconsistency” with his previous policy. With enormous harshness, Vaquero denounced that “he is only responding to the lies that surround the Socialist Party every day.”
According to Azcón’s entourage, consulted by this newspaper, Joy “panicked” because an election would mean I should”leave the Council of Ministers, facing all the Aragonese, and a bad electoral result”.
February 8, polls
The president of the region presented last Friday, also by surprise, the 2026 budgets, after having obtained from Vox the reopening of negotiations.
The Aragonese baron has set a very short deadline, yes, to reach an agreement, and this newspaper can confirm it. If this Friday there is no principle of agreementAzcón will sign the decree dissolving the Cortes on Monday.
The regional elections would take place on February 8, 2026, just in the middle of an autonomous electoral “rally” of four consecutive calls to put pressure on the PSOE of Sánchez, debated by the barons of the PP with Alberto Nuñez Feijóo last September, during the summit of presidents of Murcia.
Extremadura goes to the polls on December 21; Castile and León, March 15and Andalusia will do it in May or June. An electoral battle which especially benefits the PP in a strategic task: get rid of Vox addiction.
In Extremadura and Aragon, polls indicate that PP candidates could only govern with the abstention of Vox. Polls even suggest that they could agree with the regionalist groups of Extremadura and Aragon, with the PSR or with Aragon Exist.
In Andalusia, the aspiration is maintain the absolute majority. Castilla y León presents the situation more complicatedwithout clear options for getting rid of the condition that the far right represents.
“No to certain Sanchista accounts”
Vaquero called Alegría’s proposal “a joke against the Aragonese people.” He claims that the PSOE “has been the entire legislature blocks the prosperity of Aragon” and who now intends to “use something as important as a budget to try to support this policy of disbelief”.
The spokesperson accused Alegría of defending “a ‘sanchista’ alternative that the PP cannot allow”.
According to Vaquero, Alegría showed “her fear of going to the polls” because the Aragonese “will reject their alternative for the government of the region.
For those in Azcón, “the alternative to growth budgets, improvement of public servicesthey will not be a budget alternative sanchist“, after having systematically voted against all initiatives, for example fight against depopulation.
Alegría, however, affirmed that his offer was sincere and that he would meet with Azcón this Wednesday to find out the details. According to the minister, her party is “responsible” and she recalled that “This is not the first time that the PSOE has made this possible that a PP expenditure ceiling be brought forward”.
Azcón is in the middle of a series of contacts with “all groups”, including the socialists. However, the president’s entourage emphasizes that the only viable option remains Voxand that “it depends on them whether there will be stability or elections” in February.
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