“The Ministry wants to hold electoral events, not dialogue.” This is how forceful the president of Aragón, Jorge Azcón, was today about a possible meeting with the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, to address the repeal of the Democratic Memory law that his Executive approved in February and the recent UN report on the matter.
As he announced last week, Torres confirmed this Tuesday after the Council of Ministers that he is going to “invite” the Aragonese Government to a bilateral meeting to review its “misnamed law of concord”, so that it “returns to common sense and the defense of Human Rights”. If they refuse, he added, the Government will appeal to the Constitutional Court.
Although he did not want to reject it with a resounding ‘no’, Azcón’s words suggested that he does not plan to attend that meeting. Instead, he accused the PSOE of “resurrecting Franco” every time there are elections – in this case, Catalans – and of “not seeking the truth”, but trying to use this possible meeting for “electoralist” purposes. “Let them do it at their headquarters with their members. We are not here for jokes or to be teased,” he stated in statements to the media at the Vueling offices in Zaragoza.
For Azcón, a meeting of this type has to be called to talk about the “real problems” that affect his autonomous community, among which he cited pending hydraulic or road infrastructure, an improvement in regional financing or the promotion of the Cantabrian railway corridor. -Mediterranean.
“Wanting to call a bilateral meeting to talk about what interests the Socialist Party in the electoral campaign is no longer deceiving anyone, it is electoralism,” said the popular, for whom this call tries to hide the “political, corruption, personal and relatives” of the president, Pedro Sánchez.
For the president, it is “evident” that Torres has no desire to dialogue when, in reality, the UN report was made known to the media before the Government of Aragon itself. “What the Ministry is eager to do (…) is to theatricalize again,” he continued.
Furthermore, he insisted that it is “incomprehensible” that a document of these characteristics was written without giving a hearing to his Executive. “It strikes me that they have not had any doubts, that they have not needed to clarify any information,” he criticized today, something that he also criticized in the letter he sent yesterday to the Secretary General of the UN, Antonio Guterres. In it, he regretted the “biased and interested” information in a report “riddled with inaccuracies, falsehoods and omissions.”
Furthermore, the president has called it “implausible” that it is criticized that the repeal was approved by a single reading as it is a procedure that the Cortes Generales also uses and has urged the minister to explain why the democratically elected Cortes of Aragon cannot repeal a law.
