The Government of Aragon announced this Friday that the parliamentary groups PP and Vox, partners in the regional Executive, will present a brief to the Cortes next Monday to begin the processing of the repeal of the Democratic Memory Law. The chosen day, November 20, coincides with the 38th anniversary of the death of the dictator Francisco Franco.
It was the vice president of the community and member of Vox, Alejando Nolasco, who advanced the news during the press conference in which the first hundred days of the PP-Vox government were taken stock. Accompanied by the regional president, Jorge Azcón, he has indicated that the repeal will be debated in the next plenary session and, from there, the ordinary processing in the Aragonese Cortes will follow.
The repeal of the Aragon Democratic Memory Law was one of Vox’s electoral promises and is included in the government agreement that this party ratified with the PP in August. The norm in question was approved in the regional courts in November 2018 with the majority support of the left-wing parties (PSOE, Podemos, IU and Chunta Aragonesista) and the favorable vote for the majority of the Ciudadanos articles.
Regarding his one hundred days in government, Azcón made the most of his management despite, as he said, “inherited problems” from the previous Executive, which he described as “especially complicated and bloody.”
The president highlighted the increase in the 2024 budgets, now being processed in the Cortes, of the items destined for education, health and social policies or the expansion of the urgent medical transportation service, a measure that benefits the people. He also emphasized the tax cuts already advanced for income, inheritance, donation or estate taxes or the meeting of the dialogue table to “improve the social climate.”
Regarding national politics, Azcón stressed that Aragón has already requested a meeting of the Conference of Presidents to criticize the agreements of the new Government of Pedro Sánchez. For his part, Nolasco criticized the “comparative grievance” with other communities that the PSOE agreements with the “pro-ETA members of Bildu and the independentistas of Ezquerra and Junts” represent, of whom he has said that they are dedicated “to plundering the resources it needs.” Aragon”.
In these hundred days of government, PP and Vox in Aragón have shown great harmony, free of the stridency and controversies that have been experienced in other communities where they govern together.
