The Aragonese PSOE harshly charged this Thursday against the repeated “absences” of the president of Aragon, the popular Jorge Azcón, after learning that he spent the last week on vacation in Puerto Rico in the company of a builder friend, while criticizing “the lack of transparency and opacity” of the current Executive for not reporting these events.
Before the press, the socialist spokesperson, Mayte Pérez, assured that they had been aware of this private displacement for several days, but that it was “very difficult for her to believe it.”
In this sense, he regretted that the president went on vacation in January, “when many things are at stake,” and recalled that in recent days there has been a strong storm (Juan) that caused severe illness and has intensified “the threat of the transfer” of the Ebro. It also upset him not to have been present at the inauguration in Madrid of Fitur with the Kings, as other heads of the regional Executives did.
Pérez also questioned that the president was traveling accompanied by a businessman who “has been involved in several controversies.” He was referring to the builder Juan Focén, noted for receiving the award of several kiosks when Azcón was mayor of Zaragoza (2019-2023). Later, the municipal investigation commission that addressed the case did not detect any irregularities.
“We are concerned about why you wanted to hide it,” commented the deputy, for whom this absence should have been accompanied by an announcement about the counselor who assumed his duties throughout those days.
Azcón is scheduled to resume his public agenda this Thursday, when he will attend the inauguration in the center of Zaragoza of the new offices of the Anagan insurance brokerage in the afternoon.
Meanwhile, from the popular ranks they rejected the criticism of the socialists while blaming them for the trips with public money of former president Javier Lambán to China and Abu Dhabi to negotiate projects that did not come to fruition or those carried out by President Pedro Sánchez in the Falcon to attend a concert and rallies.
In parliament, popular deputy Carmen Herrate assured that Pérez “has lost his nerve” for criticizing a trip by the president “with his family and friends” and paid for with his own resources.
He has also criticized him for questioning the three-day trip that Azcón plans to make to Brussels next week to “defend the Aragonese people from the tremendous injustice and inequality that the Government’s amnesty law entails.”