Zaragoza (EFE).- An Aragon with “its own voice” and “leadership vocation”, which has “let go of its complexes”, with an “unavoidable role” in strengthening Spain and which has found “the path to success ” is the baggage that the president, Javier Lambán, has exhibited from the management of the quadripartite government that he leads and that is now coming to an end.
Lamban has appeared at his own request before the plenary session of the Cortes to make a brief assessment of the activity of this multicolored government (formed by PSOE, Podemos, Chunta Aragonesista and Partido Aragonés). A government that has given “good results” and that has dealt with a “difficult but fruitful four-year period.”
Transversality, moderation and agreement
An executive who has established a “successful” governance model for the community based on “transversality, moderation and agreement.” And that it has been able to trace a path that has led the community to be “a leader in equality and in quality of life and employment.”
Lambán has shown himself convinced that with his government, Aragón, in this legislature that is now ending, has found the “path to success”. “We already know how to do it, we already know the guidelines”, he assured in a clear allusion to the decision that the Aragonese will have to make when choosing the ballot to renew the Cortes, and therefore the parties that will elect the next president, on May 28 .
“We are going to make every effort to continue touring it, hoping that one day those who live in the Middle Ages decide to put on the pillars and join this path of success and progress”, he has abounded.
Inescapable role in the strengthening of Spain
And without forgetting, he added, that Aragon has an “inescapable” role in strengthening Spain as a “solidarity, modern country with a voice in the world.” “Few communities have as many historical and commitment titles” as the one he presides over.
His project of a “social, green and digital” Aragon will continue to occupy his action in this legislature, the second that he presides, until the very day of the elections, he has warned, especially the PP.
The popular ones – who with Luisa Fernanda Rudi governed Aragon between 2011 and 2015 – have been blamed for the “flagrant destruction” of public services.
Thus, while in Aragon between 2011 and 2015 these suffered a cut of 12 percent compared to 7.5% in Spain as a whole, since 2015, with Lambán already in charge of the Government, spending in this area has risen by 57 % compared to 51% in Spain, according to data provided by the president himself.
The covid-19 pandemic has not been forgotten. “We do not pay attention to material means or the harshness of decisions in order to preserve health, always with scientific criteria, not political ones,” he stated.
a common project
Another of the “vectors” of his government, together with the recovery of public services and the management of the pandemic, is the consolidation of economic growth and employment. This is based on diversification and sustainability, on equity between the rural and urban areas, on supporting Zaragoza “as an economic and cultural engine” for the community, on a “successful strategy for attracting investment”, or on the promotion of infrastructures and Vocational Training. Aragón, he has said, is a logistical and agri-food reference, but also a reference in the “cloud economy”.
Successes that he has attributed in part to legal certainty and to the fact that Aragón is understood as a “common project”. Also by the social agents, who have understood the importance of social dialogue, and by other actors such as the university, city councils or agrarian organizations, all of them “incorporated into successful governance”.
A hemicycle that smells of farewell
Praise and reproach, applause and booing, veiled allusions or direct darts has dressed the chamber this Thursday in the first session of the penultimate plenary session of the legislature, where Lambán has received, after his speech, criticism, furious or moderate, from the opposition.
PP: he will be remembered as the most non-compliant president
The PP spokeswoman, Mar Vaquero, has focused on making Lambán ugly, in addition to his “daring and audacity”, his “arrogance and cynicism”, which is increasingly distanced from reality. A reality that the president “counts in his own way” and that is his true enemy, “and not the PP.”
“You have not spoken to anyone who suffers from your policies,” he told Lambán, whom he reproached for going up to the rostrum to tell “a dream, what he would have liked to do but has been unable to.” “The Aragonese do not even want to remember him and they will experience the harvest in their own flesh on May 28,” he warned him.
Citizens, proud of having guaranteed stability
The spokesman for Ciudadanos, Daniel Pérez Calvo -who will head the list for the Zaragoza City Council- has asserted the support provided by the Liberals to the government on many occasions this legislature, “guaranteeing stability” as when they supported the 2021 budgets, in full pandemic.
The orange formation has made a “responsible and constructive” opposition to help build an “Aragon of progress”. But also “competitive”, “disruptive” and “modern”. And for this reason “he has always put the general interest before any other”. “If we could not or did not want to be decisive this legislature, it comforts me to think that at some point we have been useful,” he has settled.
Vox fails: neither height nor leadership
The Vox spokesman, Santiago Morón, has given a failing to the government, which has shown “neither height nor leadership” and that in the difficult moment of the pandemic “violated fundamental rights” and suffered from “lack of planning”, for what that “deserves reprobation.”
Its only legacy is, it has considered, a “questionable” and “shoehorned” legislative baggage because it has been the government “that has collected and spent the most”, has deteriorated public services and has not undertaken reforms to reduce superfluous spending. Faced with “growing hopelessness”, Vox “will not shirk its commitment” in a new government, he has warned.
IU has complied; the Government has not complied with IU
The IU deputy, Álvaro Sanz, has reproached Lambán for breaching the agreement by which he supported his investiture in three fundamental matters: reinforcing public services and reversing a “profoundly unfair” model; solve the precariousness of employment, and bet on a new, more sustainable model with much closer value chains.
When an agreement is not fulfilled, it is devalued, assured Sanz, who has insisted on the need for progressive and fair taxation.