2026 Aragonese regional election

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A regional election was held in Aragon on 8 February 2026 to elect the 12th Cortes of the autonomous community. All 67 seats in the Cortes were up for election. This marked the first time that an Aragonese president exercised the legal prerogative to call a snap election. The 2023 election had seen a coalition between the People's Party (PP) and the far-right Vox party being formed under the presidency of Jorge Azcón. This cabinet lasted until July 2024, when a strategic movement from Vox's national leadership saw the party exiting the government and leaving Azcón in a minority. Discrepancies between PP and Vox during the negotiations of the 2026 budget and Azcón's aim to capitalize on the perceived weakness of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)—with the farewell and later death of former president Javier Lambán and his succession by Spanish government spokesperson and education minister, Pilar Alegría—resulted in a snap election being called for February 2026, in a similar move...

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