The regional executive of the PSOE Aragón, chaired by former regional president Javier Lambán, unanimously agreed this Thursday to reject the tax agreement reached between the ERC and the PSC, as well as its support for the non-law proposal presented by the socialist group of the Cortes on this same issue.
The text was unanimously approved by the 29 members present after more than three hours of debate and without any other alternative proposal being presented, the socialists reported.
The organizing secretary of the PSOE Aragón, Daría Villagrasa, stressed before the meeting that the party has been defending equality and justice for “decades” in a regional financing system in which the real cost of services is reflected and “without privileges of any kind.”
With this initiative, the Party begins a new political journey in which it will continue to defend “the socialist alternative against the failed and disappointing government of Jorge Azcón” and sends the message that “the PSOE Aragon is standing and ready for anything” after the regional government “exploded this summer” with the departure of VOX.
Likewise, in the previous press conference, Villagrasa promised the support of the Aragonese socialists to the Spanish government and the Party, in the context of a “difficult” political situation, although he admitted that there are elements of “opinion” and “different positions” in some issues, such as regional financing, as already stated by the regional leader, Javier Lambán, who warned in an interview a few weeks ago that the PSOE was “fading away” and was worsening its “catastrophic” result in 2023.
The PSOE leader has guaranteed political support to the Executive in a legislature where, despite the “noise”, the “divergences” or the “artificial controversies”, he has increased pensions “for the pensioners who have the least”, the Minimum Interprofessional Wage, he has protected labor rights “with guarantee” and has developed “very beneficial” actions in terms of macroeconomics or foreign policy, while the PP “has denied bread and salt” and has focused on “the worst, the best”.
“We will continue to defend the Party and the Government,” stressed the Secretary of Organization, who added that they will also continue to maintain an “Aragonese profile.”
Breakup between PP and Vox
Regarding VOX’s threat to reverse the 2025 regional budgets due to the arrival of refugees in Mora de Rubielos (Teruel), Darío Villagrasa assured that what the PP must do to reach agreements with the rest of the political forces is “turn the helm, change” policy and look much more like the Lambán government.
In any case, he considered that “this uninterrupted relationship between VOX and the PP will have to be resolved by them” and that, in any case, “whenever there are important issues, whether at the national or regional level, many things are said, but in the end “They end up always voting the same thing”.
In this sense, he reiterated that the one who “embraced VOX”, the one who governs alone with the largest budget in history and the one who avoided “positions historically linked to normality, such as development cooperation, immigration or equality between peoples” was the PP.
In addition, the Socialist Regional Executive unanimously adopted an agreement to recognize the political figure of the former European deputy and former city councilor of Zaragoza Inés Ayala, who recently passed away.
