Javier Lambán, former president of Aragon | Spain

The socialist Javier Lambán died this Friday at age 67. Lambán, born in Ejea de los Caballeros in 1957, played a decisive role in Aragonese and Spanish politics, dedicating his life to public service with commitment, dialogue and defense of Aragon’s interests. He was president of the Government of Aragon between 2015 and 2023, in addition to mayor of his hometown and deputy in the Courts of Aragon and the Congress of Deputies. Lambán

The President and the Government of Aragon have transmitted their “most condolences to their family, friends and colleagues, as well as all the people who had the opportunity to work with him and share his vocation of service,” they have expressed in a statement. In grief, 3 days of official mourning will be decreed throughout the Autonomous Community and the flags will wave at half -mast in the official buildings, they have reported from the Aragonese Executive.

His last publication on social networks was only five days ago to recommend an article on political corruption whose author defended him from the accusations of making “the game to the right” with his position, openly critical, to the amnesty law. “The most serious corruption we suffer is the mutation of the Constitution, to go to a plurinational, confederal and unequal state,” Lambán said in his X account. In another publication, a few days earlier, the Aragonese politician expressed his outrage due to “the massacre of the Palestinian people who are perpetrating in Gaza the criminal Netanyahu.” “Or there is a radical change within the game or in 2027 the PSC will win in Catalonia and the PSOE will lose in the rest of Spain,” he said earlier this month.

The president of the Government has published a message in X lamenting Lambán’s death: “We receive with great regret the news of the death of Javier Lambán. His career and commitment leave an indelible mark. My condolences to his family and loved ones,” said Pedro Sánchez. His successor in the General Secretary of the Aragonese PSOE, Pilar Alegría, with whom he starred in controversial sounds, has referred to the deceased politician as “partner.” “His love for our land and his commitment to the Aragonese will always remain in our memory. My condolences and sincere affection for their family and loved ones,”. Francina Armengol, president of Congress, has said of him: “It was an exemplary public servant, deeply committed to Aragon and the values we share.”

One of the first socialists to echo death has been the president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page. “With deep pain I receive the news of the death of Javier Lambán, great friend, excellent person and exemplary politician. A full, honest, very coherent man and with an intellectual capacity that nobody discussed him. He leaves an immense emptiness, but his legacy will remain alive. My deepest condolences to his family and loved ones,” he published in X the Castellanomanca politician. The official PSOE account has fired the Aragonese politician ensuring that he was “a socialist faithful to his values and principles until the last of his days. Aragon ruled thinking about everyone, and his legacy is still alive today in that earth.” The first secretary of the PSC and president From the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, has tweeted a message of condolences in Catalan: “Javier Lambán has left us, a public servant committed to his territory.”

Since the opposition, condolences in social networks have also occurred for the death of the Aragonese politician. “I am very sorry for the death of Javier Lambán: a server, a coherent socialist and, above all, a man of trust,” said the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo. “For me it was a great luck to coincide with him in the exercise of politics. We discussed, agreed and agreed, but the most important thing is that we were friends,” said the head of the opposition. The president of the Community of Madrid, the popular Isabel Díaz Ayuso, said he regrets “deeply the death of Javier Lambán”, whom “he appreciated very politically and personally.”

Javier Lambán was born on August 19, 1957 on Ejea de los Caballeros (Zaragoza). He was a doctor in history, he was married and had a daughter. In 1999 he was invested president of the Diputación de Zaragoza, where he would remain until 2011. In 2007 he was elected mayor in his hometown, of which he had the command cane until 2014. In the second term in the City Council he was also a deputy in the courts of Aragon, and maintained his seat in the regional chamber until 2023, when he passed to the Senate. As Senator exercised less than two years, until he resigned last January 30, when he retired from political life.