The government team of the Huesca City Council removed the budget item allocated to the Periferias Festival at the request of Vox. Since 2000 it has been dedicated to the artistic avant-garde in the capital of Huesca.
The mayor of the city, Lorena Orduna (PP), presented the 2024 budget of Huesca this Monday; but it is not included in this budget any game for this festival, This is something Vox has already made clear in its election campaign that it would ask for a boost to municipal accounts if their votes were needed.
Its leaders have traditionally been against the festival, and in their election campaigns they assured that it would only serve “to shower progressive culture with hundreds of thousands of euros.”
Orduna presented the budgets after both parties reached an agreement, accompanied by council member José Luis Rubió from Vox an agreement for verification of accounts. Twelve popular councilors needed two votes from Santiago Abascal’s party in the Huesca city hall to realize the budgets.
Although this issue was not mentioned at the press conference, Vox assured in a later statement that the Periphery Festival item was removed and an entertainment, cultural and festive festival for young people aged 14-25 was included in the program.
Huesca City Council sources later stated that the cultural festival allocation remained unchanged, but “It is aimed to bring a new approach to such cultural events.” thus the programming is the result of “real demand” by the citizens of Huesca.
To this end, the Huesca government team is announcing a participatory process in the near future in which questions will be asked about the program, including the name of the festival.
Celebrated circles The year 2000 had a long history of betting for avant-garde and contemporary culture.
PSOE, the only opposition group on the council, expressed regret that the mayor had “played into the hands of the far right that hates contemporary culture” and left the festival without a budget allocation. “Bringing important names to the capital of Alto Aragon “the importance of culture at the national and international level,” the socialists explain in a press release.