The candidate for the Presidency of the Government of Aragon, Jorge Azcón, reiterated this Tuesday that the so-called "principle of national priority", a condition posed by Vox to close a government pact with the PP, is "easy to understand" and aims to establish "a fair allocation of public resources to those who maintain a real, lasting, and verifiable connection with the territory".
During his speech in the first session of the investiture plenary in the Cortes of Aragon, the acting president and 'popular' candidate for re-election has backed the measures agreed upon between PP and Vox, with the aim that "Aragonese people are not left behind in accessing public aid financed by their taxes".
He has stressed that "those who receive aid, whatever its origin, must prove according to different scales a legal, effective, and beneficial link with the territory where they live", underlining that these criteria will be objective and verifiable.
Azcón has also admitted that "Aragon needs to continue legally and orderly receiving people from other countries who want to come and contribute their work to wealth creation", and that these people "deserve and must receive the support of our system". However, he has insisted on the need to combat "with all our means" "illegal" immigration and "those who seek to take advantage of it".
At the same time, he has claimed "that no one should seek to confuse" because, as he has specified, the focus of "national priority" in access to aid and public services will be applied "strictly complying with the law and will not deprive any person of basic healthcare and social care".
In this line, he has specified that what is pursued is "to establish benchmarks for access to social benefits that, respecting the law, demonstrate the territorial roots and contribution to the system of those who receive them, whatever their nationality".
In the final part of his speech, Azcón has called on the PSOE and the rest of the left to "stop tearing their clothes," recalling that "these criteria have been in effect in Spain since the time of Felipe González" and that, despite "demagogic criticism," they are also applied in communities governed by socialists "because it is logical and fair" that public authorities support "those who have roots and contribute with their taxes."