Aragon on Friday demonstrated its solidarity and solidarity in defending the project for the joint candidacy of Aragon and Catalonia for the 2030 Winter Olympics being prepared by the Aragonese government, after two meetings with mayors and representatives of the tourism sector in the Pyrenees and the two private ski resorts in the region.
On the one hand, the Minister of Sports, Felipe Faci, met in Zaragoza with the mayors and representatives of the tourism sector, who showed a common position and solidarity with the project presented by their government and rejected, due to imbalance, the proposal proposed by the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE).
On the other hand, it was done by the Minister of Economy and president of the Aramón group, Marta Gastón, along with representatives of two private Aragonese winter resorts, Fernando Montón de Candanchú and Jesús Santacruz de Astún, who expressed their support for in the position determined by the Aragonese Executive.
They all expressed their support for the Government of Aragon to continue to work and negotiate on a candidacy that serves as the structure of the entire territory, where all the valleys are represented and where the sharing of alpine skiing will facilitate this balanced distribution so as not to lose value. the Aragonese Pyrenees.
In his address to the media, Faci assured that there is “unity and solidarity throughout the Aragonese Pyrenees with the Government of Aragon in its candidacy strategy”.
Faci did not share the candidacy proposal made by the COE president, Alejandro Blanco, because “it is unbalanced and detrimental to the Aragonese Pyrenees”, while the one to be presented by the Aragonese Executive must be “realistic” and build on “the whole territory and three valleys “.
He also assured that they will continue working to have a candidacy for the 2030 Olympic Games, which should be under the principle of equality.
Faci recalled that next week Alejandro Blanco assured that he would contact Aragón to discuss the candidacy again and that they attend “all the meetings”, although he added that they should know what conditions are occurring and “if the proposal of the Aragonese government is ignored.
With the possibility of the COE negotiating specific agreements with municipalities or stations, it clarified that from Aragon “no one will agree to anything for free” and all negotiations will be “centralized” with the Government of Aragon .
Candanchú, with a single biathlon stadium
“Aragon has always been united, unlike Catalonia, with dissenting voices,” he said, before lamenting that “someone tried” to separate them.
Later, the president of Aramón, a group that includes the Formigal-Panticosa, Cerler, Javalambre and Valdelinares resorts, sent a “clear and strong” message that the snow sector in Aragón and its resorts are “machines of the territory ”and“ strongly and forcefully ”support the project presented by the Government of Aragon.
A position also defended by Jesús Santacruz, on behalf of Astún, where the Olympic Games should serve to “structure the valleys” and to whom Aragonese resorts should host alpine ski and snowboarding events , who are “always dedicated”
For Candanchú, the station where the only biathlon stadium in Spain is located, Fernando Montón insisted that the entire snow sector of Aragon is “aligned” with the decision adopted by the Aragonese Executive and what they are defending is a distribution of “balanced evidence and equal. importance “.
Source: La Verdad
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