Strong tax reductions, the attraction of companies and a greater role for the private sector in health or education. These are the cardinal points that will guide the actions of the future "reformist and focused" coalition government of Jorge Azcón with Vox in Aragon, as the popular leader defined yesterday during his inauguration speech.
But immediately that harmony with the extreme right presented cracks. Azcón began his speech by expressing his "pain" and "stronger rejection" of the latest sexist murders, a sentence that was applauded by the entire Chamber with the exception of the ultra deputies. Later, the popular one ignored the most controversial points of the agreement signed between the two, such as the repeal of the regional law of Democratic Memory or the reform of the trans-autonomous law. "What Azcón has not said today we will say tomorrow," the regional leader of Vox and future vice president, Alejandro Nolasco, told the press.
Much better avenues were shown in other issues such as finances. Azcón promised a powerful tax reduction - lowering in the regional section of personal income tax, gradual elimination of Inheritance Tax and raising the minimum exemption from Wealth Tax to 700,000 euros - and active policies to attract "by all means" the first factory of microchips from Spain. They also agree on their determined commitment to the free choice of educational center for parents, the progressive inclusion of the baccalaureate in the concert system or greater public-private collaboration in health matters, something "essential" to provide services efficiently.
Azcón was very critical of the previous socialist government and announced the creation of a commission of investigation into the "multiple irregularities" denounced with respect to the implementation of renewable energies. Even so, he concluded his speech by betting on dialogue and offering the PSOE two State pacts: one on health and the other on regional financing with which to prevent the pro-independence forces from "trying to pervert it by generating more inequalities and territorial grievances."
