The PNV spokesperson, Aitor Esteban, has announced demanding and vigilant support for Pedro Sánchez, a favorable vote highly conditioned by the distrust generated by the non-compliance of the last legislature. The representative of the Basque nationalists, in any case, has made it clear that if the Government that emerges from the investiture complies with the agreement signed last Friday, it will have the endorsement of its five deputies during the mandate. “Nothing is asked of you that the laws do not make possible, that is not possible with political will,” he indicated.
Esteban gave a shrewd and witty speech, funny at times, but with a very clear political message. His formation supports the investiture as “the only real possibility of opening the doors of a legislature”, since “facilitating a Government that depends on the votes and wishes of Vox does not enter into our approaches.” However, he has shown that they do not trust him, using a comparison with the world of rugby.
“I’m not fooling myself, we all know each other from the last party (meaning legislature). That is why I do not expect that those of us who support the investiture today will do many mauls, that coordinated play in which a standing player has the ball in his hands and is protected by his teammates pushing in a coordinated manner, linked, all at once and gaining meter. to meter. Rather, I fear that this is going to be a game with a succession of rucks, the play in which the ball is on the ground and the players fight to catch it, crowded together in an incomprehensible disorder to the eyes of the unaccustomed spectator. It’s also part of the game. And you have to know how to play it,” he pointed out.
Esteban has made it clear that his support for the Government that emerges from the investiture will depend directly on the degree of compliance with the 10-page agreement signed last Friday: “I want to think that yes, that a signature, like the one you stamped on the agreement signed with my party, commits. And he does it on this occasion. Furthermore, I suppose you are aware that, if you intend to maintain governability, you need it to be that way.”
The representative of the Basque nationalists, in fact, has dedicated a substantial part of his speech to explaining and highlighting the agreement reached last Friday, by which his group committed to supporting the investiture. From full compliance with the Statute of Gernika to the “modification of the prevalence of agreements so that those signed in Euskadi have preference over state ones.”
From there, he has insisted that he sees a complicated legislature and has warned that certain ways of proceeding during the last mandate have no future.
“The experience of the previous legislature tells us that rather than sharing a joint vision, some groups thought they had the right to develop their entire electoral program and the rest of us had to agree to it through fait accompli. Well, I say it clearly so as not to mislead us: that is over. We can’t function like this. If any formation that is part of the Government thinks that, once the investiture is over, the only important thing is to divide up the Ministries, which by the way will have been reached with the votes of everyone, and then to do what they want, they are completely wrong. ”, he indicated.
Aitor Esteban has also looked at the popular bench punctually, and has left two references that will probably go viral. “Spain is broken… in short, it is broken only if some people do not rule. Someday perhaps I will tell what they offered us a couple of months ago,” he said, looking at Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
The Jeltzale spokesperson has also left some rhymes for the popular leader, who this Tuesday remembered the tractor that Mariano Rajoy and Esteban himself spoke about in their day.
“Mr. Feijóo, yesterday you talked to me again about tractors, complaining that you didn’t want yours. Let’s see if saying it to him with a consonant and an assonant rhyme will get him to understand it, as he did with Mariano: Alberto, your tractor, has a seized engine, due to using VOX oil,” he expressed.
Pedro Sánchez, for his part, has reaffirmed his commitment to “Basque self-government” and has highlighted that the relationship between both parties is “quite fluid”, with the desire to keep it that way.
The socialist leader has indicated that ten transfers have been formally articulated since he has been president – five of them in the last legislature – and has indicated that “the balance is frankly positive” despite the “disagreements” that Esteban has mentioned.
“Politics are solutions and they have always been on the side of solutions,” he pointed out in reference to the PNV.