For the first time in its history, Aragon will celebrate early elections. Argentina’s president, the popular Jorge Azcón, called elections this month for February 8, two years and seven months after the last autonomous rallies, in which the PP won the elections but had to make a pact with Vox to govern. The failure of this agreement with the far right, which first came out of the government with the PP in July last year and which now blocks the Presupuestos, motivated the electoral adelanto. The Argentine president aspires to re-election and less dependence on Vox, despite the fact that Santiago Abascal leads the polls. The parties face a solo campaign 54 days ago and at Christmas, while the leader forces the government of Pedro Sánchez to undergo restructuring for the departure of Minister Spokeswoman Pilar Alegría, PSOE candidate for the presidency of Aragon.
President Azcón confirmed this in advance this month in a press appearance, and tomorrow morning the decree dissolving the courts and calling the elections will be published. The comics will take place 54 days after the decree comes into force, i.e. February 8. The electoral campaign will begin on January 23 and it is decided that the parties will have a little over a month to prepare.
In the case of the PSOE, the elections in Aragon involve an overhaul of the government of Pedro Sánchez to give birth to Pilar Alegría, Minister of Education, Professional Training and Sports and spokesperson for the Executive, who will lead the socialist list. The president predicted a limited government crisis in Alegría, which he will likely implement right after the extreme elections on the 21st.
Aragon is part of the fourth autonomous community governed by the PP that will run for elections in the next semester, the third time due to the blocking of its public accounts by Vox. The PP is the protagonist of an electoral campaign that begins on December 21 with elections in Extremadura and continues with elections in Aragon on February 8, in Castile and León in March and in Andalusia in June. With the exception of the Andalusian case, where Juanma Moreno Bonilla has the absolute majority and goes to the polls because he plays, the rest of the elections take place in the strongholds of the PP where Vox blocked its hypotheses.
In the case of Aragon, the people refused to reproduce the Valencian pact that the PP signed with Vox a few weeks ago to invest in Juan Francisco Pérez Llorca, as they had requested from Santiago Abascal. “They are asking for a series of measures that are not legal, that we cannot carry out,” says the councilor of Hacienda Aragonés, Roberto Bermúdez de Castro, after the last meeting with them from Abascal. The Aragonese people also accepted the hand of the PSOE to negotiate their support for the public accounts, arguing that they “do not trust” the socialists’ offer.
The PP aspires to grow Azcón in votes and votes and no longer needs Vox to govern, seeking only the support of regionalist candidates, but the far right is at its peak in all polls and is not going to be made easier. In the last elections in 2023, the PP fell to seven points from the absolute majority.
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