Zaragoza (EFE) But this, in a meeting held this Thursday at the executive headquarters, has denied it.
Lambán has urged Azcón to seek alliances that will give him an absolute majority for his investiture and form a stable government as soon as possible. That would be achieved if he adds the support of Vox, and he has accused it of “impudence” that he wants the PSOE to abstain.
Both have held a meeting at the headquarters of the regional executive for an hour to analyze the result of the elections on May 28, which the PP won with 28 seats (it needs six for an absolute majority) in the first round or more yeses than noes in second.
Lambán’s “incoherence” and Azcón’s “effrontery”
Lambán’s “history of statements” calling for “big agreements” between the PSOE and the PP is what leads Azcón to ask the Socialists to abstain. But “at the moment of truth”, Azcón lamented in statements to the media at the gates of the Pignatelli building, Lambán once again “demonstrates inconsistency” by “saying that he is capable of saying one thing” but “doing the opposite”.
Lambán later replied that they will not abstain from Azcón’s inauguration because the role that the polls have given them is to exercise opposition loyally, but not to give him a “blank check.” That is what he, in his opinion, intends by wanting to form a lone Executive and be invested with the votes of the PP and the abstention of the rest.
“It seems to me an audacity never seen in a democracy that someone who wants to govern, in order to govern, asks the abstention of whom the polls have placed as leader of the opposition. This is unprecedented in the democratic history of Western Europe”, asserted the socialist leader.
Now, Azcón will continue with his roadmap and will summon the rest of the parties, from highest to lowest, starting therefore with Vox, which has seven deputies. He maintains what he has said up to now, that he wants a lone PP government: “with the result of the polls, we believe it is possible”, he has insisted.
But the truth is that in the second round he needs at least one deputy to vote yes to his investiture to add 29, more than the 28 that the left accumulates (23 from the PSOE, 3 from CHA, 1 from Podemos and 1 from IU), always that Vox (7), Teruel Existe (3) and the PAR (1) do not vote against his investiture and abstain.
With the round of contacts, therefore, which will begin “this week or next”, depending on the agendas of the other parties, he must try to build majorities that, with support or abstentions, allow him an investiture that he has refused to specify. whether or not it will be before the 2023 general elections.
The need for a stable government
Faced with this situation, Lambán has shown his concern about the lack of interest he sees in the PP leader in forming a stable government to attend the investiture with an absolute majority. He has recalled that he did so with separate government agreements in 2015 -then he formed a coalition with CHA and had the external support of Podemos- and 2019 -with the four-party formed by PSOE, CHA, Podemos and PAR. He has insisted that it is urgent to do so because, otherwise, many projects, “the very future of the Community” are “at serious risk.”
“I do not see that the winner of the elections, Mr. Azcón, is really making an effort, that he is really taking decisive steps towards the formation of a majority of 34 deputies who vote in favor of his investiture with pacts that are perfectly defined and explainable to public opinion. ”, according to Lambán. He has added that he wants Azcón to arrive at Pignatelli “as soon as possible” and in this vein, the popular candidate has been able to verify that the still president has already cleared his office table of photos.
Azcón has acknowledged that he knows that he will have to reach agreements, which will be “essential”, with other formations.
Transfer of powers, ‘as soon as possible’
On the other hand, Azcón has asked that the transfer of powers “be accelerated as soon as possible”, because he is concerned about “improvisation” and that the PSOE is “more concerned with the general elections than with solving the problems of the Aragonese”.
For this reason, he has urged him to have meetings with the departments whose ownership is held by the PSOE and that “they have not yet wanted”, when those of Podemos, Chunta Aragonesista and the Aragonese Party have done so.
Faced with these reproaches, Lambán has defended the importance of democratic rituals, both in form and substance. He has reiterated that the President’s law establishes how this transfer must be carried out, which the last Governing Council already agreed to initiate. All the directors are already preparing the corresponding reports and there will be “no kind of reluctance”.