Rouco presented her candidacy at Vox’s headquarters in Zaragoza, accompanied by number 2 candidate Juan José Coca; number 3 candidate Virginia Gallizo; number 4 candidate Armando Martínez, and number 5 candidate Sara Ballesteros. During the event, she stressed that “what really matters in the upcoming Nov. 29 election is bringing about an absolute change in policy and introducing common sense into the Council of Ministers.”
The candidate said that “we want to bring to the Government of Spain the national priority that was already included in the Aragon government agreement.” She also recalled that this principle already appears in the Official Gazette of Aragon in calls for applications such as aid for multiple births and family-related projects, and announced that “we will soon see it also in Aragon’s Housing Law.”
NATIONAL PRIORITY AND REMIGRATION
Rouco argued that “Spaniards must come first, just as Lithuanians come first in Lithuania, or Algerians come first in Algeria,” because “resources are finite.” She therefore called for them to be “distributed as a priority among our own people, those from here.” At the same time, she insisted that “priority is not exclusion.”
On migration, the candidate focused on “remigration,” which she summarized as the “repatriation of all immigrants who have arrived illegally, deportation of immigrants, whether legal or illegal, who commit crimes, and the remigration of those who come solely to live on public benefits without contributing to the system.”
Rouco linked immigration to the difficulties of accessing housing. According to her analysis, “mass immigration has consequences,” given that “5 million people have entered in the last five years,” while “barely 500,000 homes have been built during this period.” In her view, “the consequences” are that “access to housing has become unaffordable and restrictive, especially for young people.”
CRITICISM OF SÁNCHEZ AND BUREAUCRACY
The Vox candidate also attacked “the tons of paperwork involving rules, codes and regulations that suffocate families and the self-employed every year and are relentless with ordinary citizens.” In response, she defended “deregulation” to “prevent duplication or redundant regulations.”
Rouco also warned that “Pedro Sánchez, aware that Spaniards will judge his record, will do everything possible to ensure that the election is not clean,” referring to the Grandchildren Law and the appeal filed by Ombudsman Ángel Gabilondo following the Supreme Court’s interim measures.
In this context, she said that “the far left means chaos and streets on fire,” and claimed that its members “will not hesitate to call on their henchmen and thugs to keep Vox at home and prevent us from holding public events, as we have just seen in Galicia or as happened in 2019 at a rally in Zaragoza.” She also criticized the central government’s pardon of two of the six members known as the ‘Six of Zaragoza,’ whom she described as “street terrorists.”
