The wind blows in the negotiations between Vox and PP in Aragon. The leader of the far-right formation in the region, Santiago Nolasco, regretted this Wednesday that the popular ones have not contacted them to sit down to negotiate since the election of the Parliamentary Tables on June 23, while they have done so with Teruel Exists (TE) or the Aragonese Party (PAR) to try to force a government alone. “We are not going to abstain for nothing,” he warned.
Nolasco, whose formation achieved seven deputies that would guarantee the PP an absolute majority, assured that they have not heard from the popular since two weeks ago the ultra Marta Fernández was appointed president of the Cortes. The election of this controversial deputy suggested that Nolasco himself or his predecessor, Santiago Morón, are called to occupy more important positions in the organization chart of the community.
However, they complain that there has been no rapprochement, which contrasts with the PP’s pacts with Teruel It exists to share power in the Teruel Provincial Council. Some movements that the extreme right does not like because they consider that Tomás Guitarte’s formation “has always demonized us” and says “absolute barbarities” about them.
“If that party that demonizes us wants to agree with the PP and expects us to abstain or vote in favor of a government in which we are not and Teruel exists or the PAR is there, we are not going to go through that,” he warned.
Even so, they do not close doors, and keep their hand outstretched “firm” to negotiate given that the result of the polls -28 deputies for the PP and 7 for Vox- make it “logical” to reach an agreement between the two. “We have to be in the Government -he continued-, or at least reach a minimum programmatic agreement. But until today we have not heard from the PP”.
Aragon is the only one of the five communities where governability depends on a possible pact between the right -Balearic Islands, Extremadura, Valencia and Murcia are the others- that has not called an investiture session to date. Azcón has always defended his desire to govern alone, something that is only feasible with Vox’s vote in favor or abstention.
In this sense, Nolasco separated the situation in the community from the negotiations that are taking place in other regions because they are different scenarios and “there is no homogeneity.”
In principle, the parties have until August 23 to negotiate an investiture. From Bambú, the national headquarters of Vox, it is insisted that the logical thing is that there be a certain speed, something in which Nolasco agrees. “If we’ve been so eager for change, we don’t understand why delay it any longer,” he insisted.
Even so, he recognized that they handle all possible scenarios in case there is no agreement, including the repetition of the elections. “We are not contemplating it or ruling it out, it is a possibility,” he said.
