The president of the PNV, Andoni Ortuzar, does not spend much time in public conferences, much less outside the Basque Country. That is why there was a desire to listen to it yesterday in Foros de Vanguardia, which registered a large influx of public, especially leaders of the old CiU space, who now, after its explosion, have been shot to far-separated points of the political and social galaxy. “I don’t want to be smart,” Ortuzar said as soon as the act began to make it clear that he was not coming to give lessons to anyone. Of course, aware of the place where he was, he wanted to solemnly reformulate the proposal that the PNV has been raising for some time for a new Statute that would be endorsed by a referendum agreed with the State. A new “armored” Statute, so that it cannot be subject to the decisions of the Constitutional Court. The Basque leader disqualified the functions of this body and asked that a new one be created to elucidate cases of conflict between the central and regional administrations, as if it were a kind of arbitration commission.
Ortuzar also admitted that Catalonia, like other autonomous communities, has an unfair financing system and again criticized the coffee for all model.
In general, it could be concluded that the president of the PNV proposed an amendment to all the pillars of the autonomous model, both economically and politically. But he made it clear that these changes, including a law of clarity with Europe, would have to be achieved through institutional agreements, never by imposition by one of the parties. Thus, in the reform of the Statute, he proposed opening the future pact to the majority of parties possible, from the PP to EH Bildu.
And, in this line of search for consensus, the only license was allowed to criticize, without citing them, the Catalan nationalist leaders who allowed themselves to be carried away by the “all or nothing” during the process. Much more pragmatic, Ortuzar’s objective, more than achieving independence, is to be “less dependent” every day.
