After a marathon plenary session, which started with the first prizes from the national lottery and concluded well into the afternoon, the PP-Vox Government in Aragon carried out its first budget this Friday with the support of the Aragonese Party and Teruel Exist (39 deputies out of 67 total).

The document approved today in the regional courts contemplates a record expenditure of 8,546 million euros, 3.6% more than the previous one. In total, 181 amendments have been introduced of the 1,886 presented by parliamentary groups in recent weeks, of which only a dozen belong to groups that have not supported the budgets (PSOE, IU, Chunta and Podemos).

“We are very satisfied,” summarized at the parliamentary headquarters the Minister of Finance, Roberto Bermúdez de Castro, who highlighted the “broad support” obtained by “different parties of different ideology.”

Since its presentation in November, the Executive led by the popular Jorge Azcón has highlighted that these are “ambitious and adjusted to reality” accounts that reinforce the quality of public services in the region. Among the most favored items are health, education and social welfare, with budget increases of around 10% each.

Another of the emblems of the document are the tax reductions, with an initial impact on the regional coffers of about 52 million euros. Among the modified taxes, the deflation of personal income tax stands out, which will affect some 730,000 taxpayers in the community. The text also contemplates the raising of the minimum exemption in the wealth tax from 400,000 to 700,000 euros, a figure that is in line with national parameters, or modifications in inheritance and donation taxes.

“Aragón had one of the worst tax systems and now it is fairer,” Azcón insisted during his presentation in November, who throughout the electoral campaign repeatedly called the situation in the community “fiscal hell.”

From the opposition, left-wing groups once again attacked “classist” and “rancid” accounts, which “benefit the richest” and “submit to the interests of the extreme right.”

In this sense, Santiago Abascal’s party has shown its satisfaction with some accounts where they have left their mark with postulates such as control of aid to unions – “without electricity and stenographers they will not see a single euro,” the party warned today. ultra Fermín Civiac-, the 80% reduction in aid to international cooperation organizations -its amount plummets from 6.2 million euros to 1.2 million- or the inclusion of references to domestic violence instead of sexist violence.

Another of her victories has been to add half a million euros to help pregnant women in difficult economic situations through pro-life entities. Or the total elimination of the meager 57,000 euros that until now were dedicated to promoting Aragonese and Catalan, mainly through the Academia de la Lengua Aragonese de la Lengua and the J. Ferrández d’Heredia chair. “They promote separatism and it is a reality foreign to Aragon,” they argued.

Instead, they are committed to allocating these resources to the promotion and development of studies and research on the history of Spain and Aragon and the Spanish language.

As a collateral effect of the processing of these budgets, the latent conflict between the left-wing parties and Teruel Exist has intensified. After learning that Tomás Guitarte’s yes to a large part of the accounts (in some sections he abstained), the socialist leader and former president, Javier Lambán, yesterday referred to the Teruel party on his networks as a “fraud”, and accused his leader to surrender to the PP before the elections and insult the intelligence of the people of Teruel.

Guitarte, who in the last legislature was key in Madrid to invest Pedro Sánchez, regretted the attempts to try to pigeonhole them into ideological blocks. In direct reference to Lambán, he pointed out that the “majority of the actions” of his Executive “are not different” from those of a right-wing government and that the socialist “is hurt that there are progressive people who are critical of the government’s attitude.” ”.