Aragón's PP-led government under Jorge Azcón met with Vox on Monday to negotiate the 2026 budgets, but positions remain distant, pointing to early elections in February. Vox pushes to replicate the Valencia pact, which the PP deems unacceptable on several points. The parties have scheduled a final meeting this week.
The Monday, December 9, 2025, meeting between Aragonese President Jorge Azcón of the PP and Vox spokesperson Alejandro Nolasco lasted one and a half hours but failed to bridge gaps on the 2026 budgets. The PP's Finance advisor, Roberto Bermúdez de Castro, described positions as 'very distant' and labeled some Vox demands 'unacceptable' or even 'illegal.' Vox seeks to eliminate aid to organizations facilitating irregular immigration, fully reject the EU Green Deal, and cut taxes, mirroring the deal the PP signed with Vox in Valencia two weeks ago to invest Juan Francisco Pérez Llorca.
Nolasco complained about the PP's regional inconsistencies: 'Something that Valencians can enjoy, why can't Aragonese?' He added that the PP's budget draft 'could be a PSOE budget' and that Azcón 'seems like a Podemos president.' Bermúdez de Castro rejected requests like river dredging without environmental permits or cutting subsidies to NGOs like Cruz Blanca in Huesca, which aid immigrants.
Both parties have scheduled a final meeting by week's end to decide 'yes or no, without fuss,' per the PP advisor. Without agreement, Azcón will call early elections for February 2026, a month before those in Castilla y León. The PP rules out a deal with the PSOE, despite socialist Pilar Alegría's offer to abstain on the spending ceiling in exchange for more public housing.
Other groups weighed in: Aragón-Teruel Existe's Tomás Guitarte criticized unfulfilled 2023 agreements, such as at Teruel's hospital; while PAR's Alberto Izquierdo expressed willingness to back the budgets.