Azcón is already seeking Vox's support to avoid a deadlock in Aragon: "When you don't have a majority, you have to reach an agreement."

MadridJorge Azcón (PP) won the elections in Aragon, but not with an absolute majority, which forces him to look once again to Vox, raising the specter of a deadlock – the regional elections were brought forward precisely because the far-right party did not support the budget. "When you don't have an absolute majority, you have to reach an agreement," the regional president said just before entering the PP's national executive committee meeting this Monday, referring to Santiago Abascal's party. This message was later echoed by the PP leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo. In this instance, the PP leader did not hesitate to address Vox directly: "Responsibility," Feijóo demanded of Santiago Abascal, who extended the message beyond Aragon: "People cannot be frustrated. Vox cannot become a wall," he reiterated. Furthermore, the PP president did not hesitate to use the results in Aragon to take a swipe at the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez: "People are telling him enough is enough [...] The PSOE is losing because people can't stand it."

Meanwhile, the Spanish government has accepted defeat but is clinging to the PP's decline, which now depends on a stronger Vox party in the region. One of the first reactions on Monday came from Minister Ángel Víctor Torres. In statements to SER Canarias, he acknowledged the poor results for the Socialists, who have returned to the 18 seats they held in 2015 (down from 23), but defended President Jorge Azcón, saying the election "went wrong."

According to the Minister of Territorial Policy, the PP "has made a serious mistake" by following the strategy set by his party leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in his "obsession with becoming president of the Spanish government at any cost." He added that the PP's strategy is also "dangerous" for society as a whole because "it is strengthening the far right." "People vote for the original, not the copy," he argued. This Sunday, the conservatives won the elections but lost two seats (from 28 to 26), while the far-right more than doubled its results, going from 7 to 14 representatives. Torres's reaction comes after Spanish President Pedro Sánchez stated on Monday night that, despite the Socialist defeat, the PSOE "will continue to be the only progressive alternative." In a message to X that was much less belligerent than his minister's, he also congratulated Azcón on the victory and the Socialist candidate, former minister Pilar Alegría, for her "great work and commitment" to Aragon.

In his statements to SER radio, Torres also wanted to send a message to all progressive forces, convinced that "if all the left-wing votes had gone together in Aragon," they would have obtained more seats than the far-right Vox party. Analysis aside, Santiago Abascal's party will once again hold the key to governance in the region, where the elections were called due to the lack of agreement between the far-right and the PP (People's Party) during budget negotiations. Vox's candidate, Alejandro Nolasco, announced this morning that he is awaiting a call from Azcón, to whom he has offered an "open hand" to change the "socialist policies" in Aragon. He said this in an interview on Antena 3, where he did not clarify whether they will demand to be part of the regional government. "The important thing is to truly change the policies," he said, mirroring the far-right pact between the PP and Vox in the Valencian Community.

Musk echoes the election

Elon Musk, the owner of X, has also taken the opportunity to comment on the elections in Aragon. who has declared war on Sánchez's governmentHe has once again attacked the Spanish government following the regional elections, in which the PSOE equaled its worst result ever.

He did not issue his own statement, but rather retweeted a message from Mike Benz, former US Secretary of State for Communications, in which he links the defeat of "the corrupt Spanish government" to the need to "flood the country with 500,000 immigrants"—referring to the extraordinary regularization approved by the PSOE.