The Popular Party and Vox closed an agreement last night in Aragon that guarantees that Jorge Azcón can be invested as president of the community next week.
In order to reach the pact, the popular ones finally had to give up the claim of a single government and ended up ceding to the ultra-nationalist party a vice-presidency, which will be in charge of the regional leader of Vox, Alejandro Nolasco, and two ministries, Agriculture and Territorial Development, Depopulation and Justice, which will be the responsibility of the vice president.
In principle, the official announcement of the pact will be made public today. So, everything points to the fact that the Mesa de les Corts and the Board of Speakers will be convened on Monday so that the investiture plenary begins on Wednesday. The second part of the debate will be held on Thursday, with the intervention of all the groups and the final vote, which will allow the Government chaired until now by Javier Lambán to take over, two months after the elections were held.
With this pact, of which nothing is known about the fine print, the PP would no longer need the collaboration of the Partit Aragonès and Teruel Existeix, two formations with which it has maintained contacts until a few days ago. This last party, led by Tomás Guitarte, refused to support a government where Vox was present.
There are already three regional governments of the Popular Party, of which Vox will also be a part. In Valencia, the president and militant of the PP, Carlos Mazón, was the first to close a pact with the ultra-nationalists, to whom he gave a vice-presidency that entails the direction of the area of Culture, and the Ministries of Justice and Interior and Agriculture.
In Extremadura, where in the elections of May 28 the party with the most votes was the PSOE, Vox entered the Executive despite the initial resistance of the current president, the popular María Guardiola, who, in this way, went ensure enough supports to get the position. Guardiola, like Azcón in Aragon, intended to govern alone.
The last of the governments still pending an agreement between the conservatives and the extreme right is that of Murcia, but it is likely that, after the agreement in Aragon, its president, the popular Fernando López Miras, will also give in. Otherwise, there will be another election.
