Jorge Azcón Announces €52 Million for Housing Construction in 2027 Budget
The Government of Aragón will allocate €52 million to housing construction in its 2027 budget, a 45% increase from the €36 million allocated in 2026.
The Government of Aragón will allocate €52 million to housing construction in its 2027 budget, a 45% increase from the €36 million allocated in 2026.
PP and Vox rejected the PSOE's bill to promote the rights of women in rural areas in the Aragon Parliament on Thursday. The initiative included measures to support employment, entrepreneurship and work-life balance, but failed to pass despite, according to the Socialists, the People's Party having backed the same text in December 2024.
PP and Vox rejected a minute of silence for Maricarmen during Thursday’s plenary session in the Aragon Parliament, as proposed by the PSOE. The 87-year-old woman died at Madrid’s Gregorio Marañón Hospital on Wednesday night. Her eviction sparked the wider housing mobilization that has led to a general election being called and a general strike.
Although the Spanish Congress has been dissolved following the call for a general election, the Cortes of Aragon continues its work. Three issues will dominate Thursday’s session: housing, PIGA projects and the situation of hospitals in Teruel and Alcañiz.
The Socialist Party is preparing for the November 29 general election by bringing together its Zaragoza Provincial Committee this Wednesday. It announced that several assemblies will be held on October 13 to determine the lists for Congress and the Senate.
Carmen Fúnez, the People’s Party’s deputy secretary for Health and Social Policy, said that “the time for change is beginning” and argued that this transformation must also reach social policies, which will be “a fundamental pillar” of Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s project.
PSOE Aragón secretary general Pilar Alegría has expressed her “enthusiasm and optimism” about overturning the polls, as happened in 2023. She said the Socialists will explain the importance of these elections, in which voters must choose between respecting those who are different and “politics based on insults and the dehumanization of political opponents.” “Our country’s very future is at stake,” she said.
Aragon President Jorge Azcón has expressed his disagreement with the Spanish government’s intention to approve the decree regulating data centers before the general election. He does not understand why a caretaker government would make “such an important decision” affecting investments worth billions of euros in these technology infrastructures, which are seeking to establish themselves in the region.
Recent news about housing protests and the call for elections has shifted attention away from the situation in Ceuta. Vox Aragón disagrees, and its spokesperson in the regional parliament, Santiago Morón, has said they will continue speaking about it until “Ceuta is liberated, the last of the invaders leaves the city and normality is restored.”
The call for general elections on November 29 has disrupted regional politics. Events have been canceled, new lists must be prepared and negotiations are accelerating. The PSOE is among those affected: at Ferraz's direction, the primaries planned for the 2027 municipal elections have been suspended.
Aragón’s Parliament approved a People’s Party motion on Monday in the Institutional and Statutory Development Committee to promote the designation of Aragón’s popular bullfighting traditions as an Intangible Asset of Cultural Interest and draw up an inventory of the various traditional forms and practices existing across the region, recognizing their cultural and ethnographic value and encouraging their knowledge and transmission among younger generations.
Aragon's vice president, Alejandro Nolasco, has urged ambassadors from EU member states to protect Europe from “mass and uncontrolled immigration,” which he warned poses a major “threat” to “the economic survival of the welfare state” and to “the democracies” of the countries that make up the Union.
PSOE Aragón secretary general Pilar Alegría said Monday that the next general election presents a clear choice between two models for the country. Following President Pedro Sánchez’s announcement of the election, Alegría said there were “no half measures”: “it is about moving forward or going backward, standing up for ordinary people or defending the privileges of a few.”
The Government delegate in Aragon, Fernando Beltrán, has welcomed the early election announced by Pedro Sánchez on Monday and defended the call as “part of democratic normality.” In his view, the election will allow voters to “renew majorities” and reassess the support enjoyed by each political force.
Aragon’s vice president and minister for Deregulation, Social Welfare and Family, Alejandro Nolasco, has described the early general election as a “historic opportunity” to remove Pedro Sánchez from La Moncloa, calling his government “criminal, corrupt and mafioso.” The Vox leader has harshly criticized Sánchez and the PSOE, describing him as a “Moroccan candidate” in reference to being “at Morocco’s service.”
Chunta Aragonesista hopes the November 29 general election will feature a single left-wing slate in Aragón, led by the party and including IU, Sumar, Podemos and even Teruel Existe, which has never identified itself as left-wing.
The PSOE has called on the Government of Aragon to detail which taxes companies establishing data centers in the region pay, where they pay them and what tax benefits they receive. Socialist lawmaker Jesús Morales said this Sunday in Pinseque that Aragon residents should know the economic and fiscal return on investments worth billions of euros.
Twenty years ago, Aragón Digital was already reporting the stories shaping current affairs in Aragon. On October 3, 2006, Spain’s Congress approved consideration of the reform of Aragon’s Statute of Autonomy with 283 votes in favor and ten abstentions, allowing its parliamentary process to continue. The proposal was supported by broad consensus among Aragon’s political forces, although the debate also highlighted disagreements over water reserves, linguistic matters, an autonomous police force and a regional tax agency. The reform went on to the amendment stage.
Aragon’s PP and PSOE clashed Friday over two housing royal decrees being debated in Congress. The PP called it a government failure, while the PSOE accused Jorge Azcón’s executive of rejecting the measures out of sectarianism.
Spain’s government housing decrees will be rejected by Congress this Friday with votes against from the PP, Vox and Junts. The issue has also spread across Aragón’s political social media. Aragón President Jorge Azcón has called for immediate elections over Sánchez’s “stunning failure” at the helm of Spain’s government.