The spokesperson of the Vox Parliamentary Group and representative of Santiago Abascal's formation in the Economy and Finance Commission, David Hierro, has reproached the second vice president of the Junta de Castilla y León, Isabel Blanco (PP), that the housing policies of the regional government do not explicitly incorporate the principle of national priority.
"We need to rethink and use national priority as one of the guiding principles of housing policies for Castilla y León," insisted David Hierro, who reminded the second vice president of the Junta of point 15.5 of the government agreement signed on June 3 between PP and Vox.
"National priority, national priority; resources are limited and Spaniards must access them as a priority," reiterated the Vox spokesperson after listening to Isabel Blanco's intervention in the Economy and Finance Commission, in which the second vice president detailed the budget project of the Autonomous Community for 2027 in the areas under her responsibility --Housing, Urban Planning, Depopulation, Land Management, Civil Protection and Emergencies, Women and Equality of Opportunities--.
Hierro agreed with Blanco that housing is "the main concern" of Spaniards and the citizens of Castilla y León and admitted that the commitment to increase the allocations for housing policies by 80 percent has been fulfilled. "Congratulations," expressed the Vox representative to the second vice president, only to reproach that the principle of national priority has not been incorporated into access to aid, in a context where "a large portion of the population is mostly recurrent in those aids."
Blanco clarified to David Hierro that today's session focused on the presentation of the 2027 budgets, where the concept of "real and prolonged roots" based on a "historical registration" in Castilla y León does not yet appear as a criterion for accessing aid, a requirement that, as the second vice president has guaranteed, "will appear in the corresponding calls."
The vice president has also emphasized that the government agreement between PP and Vox provides for the implementation of a system for access to protected housing and social rental inspired by the principle of national priority and adjusted to current legality, which ensures "the priority allocation" of public resources "to those who maintain a real, lasting, and verifiable connection with the territory."
From the Mixed Group, the representative of UPL, Rosa María Quintanilla, has described Isabel Blanco's intervention as "idyllic narrative" in relation to the economic data and has concluded that the annex of real investments for León, Zamora, and Salamanca is reduced to "institutional propaganda" with a commitment "almost null."
The León supporter has cited as an example the allocation of 2.4 million planned for the Holy Week Museum of Zamora in 2027, a year in which, according to the budget project, "it will finally be completed," she pointed out. "It will require an act of faith given the trajectory of this project promised for more than a decade because, curiously, last year in the budget project you promised to complete it this same year, in 2026, with a planned investment of 5 million euros," she recounted.
Blanco has replied that the allocation included in the 2027 accounts is "what is needed to finish the work" and has shared, as a Zamorana, her wish that no more setbacks arise and the museum can be completed next year. "I am one of the people most interested in finishing the Holy Week Museum and that our processions can leave from there," she asserted.
Quintanilla has also criticized the "meager amount" that the 2027 budget project reserves for demographic dynamization actions and has warned that 200,000 euros for the entire Community is "a very reduced allocation" to face "with a minimum of guarantees" the challenge of depopulation.
She has added that in terms of housing "one size does not fit all" and has defended the need for an action plan tailored to the particularities of each territory that, at the same time, ensures that investments do not continue to fuel the loss of population.
Finally, the spokesperson for the Popular Group in this Commission, José Luis Sanz Merino, has highlighted the solvency, investment capacity, and transformation potential associated with the Second Vice Presidency.