Zaragoza (EFE) – The President of Aragon, Jorge Azcón, and his First Vice-President Alejandro Nolasco met this Friday in An atmosphere of understanding was created among the partners of the PP-Vox Executive Committee and as the first hundred days of the government came to an end, the 2024 budget was tentatively approved.
Jorge Azcon told a press conference in Zaragoza on Friday that the budget “visualizes campaign promises into reality”. He thanked the Aragonese people for their vote last May and his government partners for the confidence they had placed in him.
“In addition to having clear ideas, it is also necessary to work hard, and we are satisfied with the dedication and work of the entire team that makes up the government,” Azcon noted. President Aragon recalled the first hundred years in the name of the General Council of Aragon Some of the incidents that occurred today, such as revising emergency transport documents so that ambulances could once again provide a 24/7 service, were “inherited” from previous executives, he said.
He cited other “challenges,” such as dealing with the presence of Cryptosporidium protozoa in the Quiles River, which has caused outbreaks of gastroenteritis in several towns in the Tarazona area.
happy with budget increase
Jorge Azcón is “proud” of the 10.77% increase in the education policy budget, the 10.39% increase in the health budget, the 12.06% increase in the social welfare budget, which also includes an increase of 150 million euros for the support and creation of 200 residential places.
He also mentioned $1.5 million for rural schools, the opening of schools in Jaulín and Alarcon, a 25% increase in the personal income tax bonus for school aid and an 11.8% increase in educational aid, all in line with the goal of “achieving equality”. ”, 16 million for mental health programs or an initial 75 million for Pyrenees programs, without forgetting the promotion of the new La Roma Radar football stadium in Zaragoza.
The President influenced the agreement on “Improving the social climate of Aragon” in the social dialogue table, with $32 million to improve the financing of municipalities, the Territorial Cohesion Fund to increase from $3 million to $19 million, and $3 million to help self-employment and small merchants and agricultural insurance 12 million.
Aragonese President Jorge Azcon (I) and Vox Vice-President Alejandro Nolasco. EFE/Javier Ceborada
Reduce taxes and bureaucracy
“Aragon must stop becoming a financial hell for businessmen and families,” Jorge Azcón said of his tax cuts, which will save all citizens 52 million euros. Additionally, he mentioned reducing bureaucratic burdens to support initiatives that create jobs and job opportunities, which he said would have “a direct dialogue with community chairs.”
For his part, Nolasco acknowledged that during these 100 days of government, “a lot of progress has been made, which became a reference in terms of equality of opportunity that the central government denies”, among which he cited “the support for confrontation in an unprecedented way” Depopulation.”
In this regard, he reported on a meeting held in Brussels on Monday to propose to European Commissioners that in the criteria for recognizing uninhabited areas, they should ignore data from the capital Zaragoza because it “distorts” it.
Agree “essentially”
This is underlined by a 7% increase in the size of lawyers and attorneys providing free legal aid (i.e. an official shift) in the judicial area, where Alejandro Nolasco is a consultant. The guards at the Zaragoza Investigative Court or the Forensic Institute worked 24 hours a day, not once a week as they do now.
Asked whether the agreement between Vox and PP could be compromised, Jorge Azcón warned that “the partner with whom he has differences is the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE)”. He said it was unprecedented for a partner to threaten a transfer. He said PSOE also had an agreement with PNV that was “not even known”.
“It is clear that we are two parties (referring to PP and Vox) that do not agree on everything, but we do agree on the main points and we do not get bogged down in debates that other political forces are interested in, ”Azcón concluded.