“The PNV has won”, “the PNV has won” and so on up to a dozen times in the twenty minutes of Andoni Ortuzar and Imanol Pradales’ appearances. The PNV has won and Aitor Esteban settles the score in It seems that the Basque people thought it better to throw Podemos out of their parliament: zero seats.” “Don Aitor, don’t you feel sorry for attacking the hospitality industry in this way?” asks a tweeter sardonically.
Pradales will be lehendakari with the votes of the socialists while the cliché of the bitter victory is reaffirmed in the digital agora: in online trends Bildu wins. There is more talk about terrorists after the elections in the Basque Country than during the campaign. ETA is not an electoral variable, not even when Pello Otxandiano is unable to define it as a terrorist group. @FernandoArambur confessed to Gemma Nierga: “I’m not surprised by the result. Bildu’s strategy consists of turning the page. They have done that very well.”
At the Bildu electoral headquarters, “Jo ta ke irabazi arte” – Go hard until victory – was shouted and the result was historic. The ERC accounts congratulate each other, as those of Junts do with Pradales, while on the Spanish right they write like never before: “terrorists”, “Sánchez’s ETA partners”. They even praise Koldo García, the weapon used against the president. “You say you have a clear conscience. Could you tell us who might not have it so calm?” asks a Bildu senator to the former advisor of José Luis Ábalos. Koldo responds: “You may as well, right? The first”. “Will Koldo be the only socialist who tells things clearly to those at Bildu?” asks @josepramonbosch
The PNV wins, Bildu grows, Podemos disappears and Sumar is transmuted. The candidate is left out of the Basque Parliament and highlights the effects of the division of the left and its balance. She describes it @_mundus “When you ask Sumar: Barbie pink smile, young, NGO and with a short-lived political past in Podemos… and when it arrives: zorokotroko historian, head of the PC in Euskadi, socialized in Gazte Komunistak. You laugh at AliExpress!”
And what the polls go viral: in Orexa, Bildu achieved 100% of the votes (60); Laguardia is the only municipality where PNV or Bildu did not win; and the reality of the “new politics”: “We can win the general elections in the Basque Country in 2016. And Ciudadanos won the elections in the Parliament of Catalonia in 2017,” recalls @Rogerbuch. Podemos disappears and Ciudadanos… On 12-M.
