Zaragoza (EFE).- The last plenary session of the legislature, in addition to being the “broom” to approve pending laws, is the last occasion to say goodbye as lordships to those who abandon regional politics, some by their own decision, others because they are powerless, some with emotion and wishes of luck for the future and others, with invitations in their localities to beers, skewers, ham and even Tronchón cheese.
I wish I had been worthy
The first to start, as soon as the session began, was the president of the Cortes, Javier Sada, who took a “step to the side” to say goodbye to parliament after twenty years, grateful for the “privilege” that he has had to carry out. and the desire to have exercised its institutional role “with dignity”.
“Let me enjoy the last plenary session that I am going to preside over,” he said before admitting that he was almost moved to receive the applause of the chamber and offer “a beer even with a skewer, if there are not many” to those who go to see him in his town, Ateca, an offer that his partner from the PSOE, Óscar Galeano, has taken on the fly, but with an added “tablet of chocolate for dessert”.
“I don’t want to say goodbye”
Behind him, in his second speech in plenary, the Vice President of the Government and former leader of the PAR, Arturo Aliaga. As the jota says, he has confessed, “I wouldn’t want to say goodbye”, but after 16 years in which he has been part of the PP and PSOE governments, he does so because of the “convulsion of Aragoneseism”. “You have to admit and accept the blows, that’s why we Catholics are where we are”, he has sentenced before evoking the harmony of the village festivities to say “Goodbye with our hearts”.
The deputy of Podemos Itxaso Cabrera, this legislature first secretary of the Table of the Cortes, has taken advantage of a turn of explanation of vote to claim public health in her march, which “has saved us from a pandemic”, to wish your honorable members ” mental health”, and that the next legislatures speak “and a lot” about it, and imagine an Aragon, in a few years, “anti-fascist, anti-racist, environmentalist and, therefore, only feminist in this way”.
“I also say goodbye to this House. I wish you success personally, all of you have my phone and I am willing to help you ”, assured José Luis Saz, from Ciudadanos, and his partner Loreto Camañes, that in Teruel they will always have a partner and friend. “I will put a good plate of Teruel Denomination of Origin ham on the table with Tronchón cheese and olives from Bajo Aragón”, she said.
Pride for the plurality of Parliament
With a broken voice, despite trying to contain her emotions, Carmen Martínez, from CHA, has caught “air” to say goodbye as a parliamentarian after nine “extremely interesting and important” years and show her pride in the plurality of Parliament, for her own headquarters and by its workers, including the contractors, who make everything work “like a Swiss watch”. And although she did not want to make recommendations, she has asked all the deputies to “cultivate affection”, because she “will surely make your legislative work much easier.”
The infirmary awaits the PSOE deputy María del Carmen Sahún, grateful for having shared four years of work with all the parliamentarians representing the Alto Aragonese rural world. “From now on, another noble art, that of nursing, awaits me in the Primary Care of the Barbastro health sector.”
Like Sada, the PP deputy Ana Cristina Sainz has invited the entire chamber “to beers and wines” in Tarazona. “Don’t come up against us, we are many and wanting to”, has recommended the president of the Cortes, while Fernando Ledesma, also from the PP, has highlighted the “honor” and “pleasure” that it has been to share legislature.
“There goes the farewell” as the jota says, Esther Peirat, from PAR, has also announced emotionally, for whom some of the 67 parliamentarians are already an important part of her life, especially her fellow bench members, Jesús Guerrero, in which she has found “an older brother” and Arturo Aliaga, “the best political father” that could have touched him. And Guerrero has reciprocated with an affectionate hug, because she has sometimes acted as an older sister, and with thanks to Aliaga. “This does not end, it is simply the beginning of many things,” she confided.
A great honor for the first gypsy deputy in the Cortes
A great honor and responsibility is how the first gypsy parliamentarian in the Chamber, Vanesa Carbonell, from Podemos, has defined her time in the Cortes, who takes many “friends” and is sure that they will all continue working for the good of Aragon . And her partner, Marta de Santos, has given thanks “from her heart” for this experience, this shorter legislature in her case, having been “on the other side”, in the Government of Aragon.
A plenary session to say “see you later”, like the IU deputy, Álvaro Sanz, or the Vox parliamentarian, Marta Fernández, with more fraternal farewells than usual, even sweetened with the Bujaraloz muffins with which their mayor and deputy spokesperson of the PSOE, Darío Villagrasa, has received their lordships in Parliament, and to recognize, in the words of the PP spokesperson, Mar Vaquero, the work of Sada.
“He has been a great parliamentarian, a great president and what he has left us all with is that he is a great person,” said Vaquero to applause and with all the deputies on their feet before Sada, now truly moved, raised his session.