Spain’s People’s Party (PP) and Vox have struck a coalition agreement to govern the northeastern region of Aragón for the next four years, making it the second Spanish region in less than a week to adopt the contentious “national priority” principle — the same clause that anchored the Extremadura deal sealed on April 22.
The 38-page document commits the Aragón government to conditioning access to public subsidies, housing and welfare on what it calls “real, lasting and verifiable ties to the territory”. PP insists the measure is legal and does not discriminate by nationality; Vox reads it as putting Spaniards first. The rapid repetition of the clause across two regional agreements in rapid succession signals that prioridad nacional is becoming a fixed feature of PP-Vox coalition-building in Spain, not an isolated experiment.
Vox will take the First Vice-Presidency for Deregulation and one of three ministerial portfolios — Social Services and Family, Agriculture, or Environment and Tourism — as well as the First Vice-Presidency of the Aragonese parliament and an autonomy senate seat currently held by PP members.
IMMIGRATION
The agreement commits the Aragón government to rejecting the central government’s migration policy outright and refusing to accept further unaccompanied foreign minors. It also pledges to work to return those already in the region to their countries of origin and to strip subsidies from non-governmental organisations that facilitate illegal immigration.
The burka and niqab are to be banned in public spaces. The national priority clause mirrors language used in the Extremadura pact, with aid reserved for those who can demonstrate enduring local roots. The left has called the measure discriminatory; PP maintains it complies fully with Spanish and EU law.
TAXES AND HOUSING
The coalition has agreed a progressive income tax reduction of 0.25 percentage points per year from 2027 for brackets below €52,500, aiming to accumulate a full one-point cut by the end of the legislature. A differentiated tax plan targeting depopulated municipalities will include measures on birth rates, housing and entrepreneurship.
The environmental levy on atmospheric emissions is to be scrapped. Inheritance and donation taxes will receive an 80 per cent bonus and stamp duty will fall progressively from 1.5 to 1.3 per cent.
The agreement also commits to building 4,000 new public housing units over four years and to a fast-track eviction process for illegal occupation, alongside a new welfare fraud verification service tied to municipal registration records.
AGRICULTURE AND RURAL POLICY
PP and Vox have pledged to oppose any reduction in the Common Agricultural Policy budget and to press Madrid to advance irrigation infrastructure in Teruel province. A €135 million-a-year Extraordinary Roads Plan will enter into force in 2027, and business-support aid in Teruel — a sparsely populated area with special EU status — will be pushed to the maximum permitted level of 20 per cent.
EDUCATION
The agreement provides for the progressive introduction of publicly subsidised sixth-form education from the 2026/27 academic year, guaranteeing freedom of school choice. The regional government will demand a single national university entrance examination.
The programme for Arabic-language and Moroccan cultural teaching in Aragonese primary and secondary schools is to be abolished.
HEALTH AND SPENDING
Health spending will increase by at least the same percentage as the overall budget. Surgical and diagnostic waiting lists are to be cut, new health centres opened and more residential care places created.
Subsidies to trade unions, employers’ organisations and private entities without proven public utility will be cut by 50 per cent, and periodic audits of all public expenditure introduced.
CATALAN AND CULTURAL FREEDOM
The coalition has agreed to abolish the Aragonese Institute of Catalan and to repeal regulations it regards as imposing ideological criteria or promoting the Catalan language in Aragonese territory against the wishes of local residents.
