As she had already announced after the elections, the future mayoress of Zaragoza, Natalia Chueca, closed the doors to a government with Vox in the City Council, where the popular will govern in a minority during the next legislature. The extreme right, which aspired to greater weight, will not abstain during the inauguration and warned that they will be “more demanding” than up to now.

After the meeting this Wednesday between Chueca and the Vox spokesman in the City Council, Julio Calvo, the popular assured an expectation “that does not correspond to reality” has been generated, since his intention has always been to govern alone with the external support from the radicals, as has been the case for the last four years. It is “the most appropriate formula” to continue working, she said, especially given the result of the polls, which have left only one councilor with an absolute majority.

In any case, he positively valued Vox’s willingness to work, which has gone from two to four councilors after the elections, by proposing different measures for the new government to carry out and the coincidences in some programmatic points.

“Zaragoza cannot be blocked,” he stressed. “It has to continue transforming as we have begun to do in these four years, and for that we need to maintain that support for important moments, strategic projects, ordinances, and budgets,” he added.

With the 15 councilors harvested in the elections, one of the absolute majority, Chueca has secured the investiture on June 17. However, the popular, who replaces her partner Jorge Azcón, future president of the community, will need the support of the extreme right to carry out budgets and ordinances during the legislature, and the greens have already warned that their support will not it will be cheap.

At first, Vox will disregard the popular request to abstain from the investiture, and its four councilors will vote for themselves, a gesture that will not alter the result but will serve to set the tone for their future relations. “They will have us face to face with any initiative that does not fit our roadmap,” Calvo said.

In addition, he criticized that Chueca behaves “as if he had an absolute majority” despite the fact that they need his support to carry out the legislature, and he was confident that after the general elections of 23-J he would change his position. “He will have no choice but to accept the evidence, which needs our votes to configure majorities,” said the councilor, who warned that they will not sell or give away their votes for free. “We are going to be very demanding, even more than this (last) mandate,” he added.

The situation in the Zaragoza mayor’s office is similar, although not the same, to that of the government of the Aragonese community. The popular Azcón, who obtained 28 parliamentarians out of the 67 in contention, has asked Vox to abstain from the investiture in order to head a government alone, despite the fact that the sum of its seven deputies would give the PP an absolute majority. The ultra formation is waiting to meet with the leader of the popular in the coming days, and it has not yet clarified what its next steps will be in the Cortes.