Some Basque politicians and candidates for lehendakari woke up early this Sunday to go to the polls. Among the earliest risers were the PP candidate, Javier de Andrés, and the current Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu, who arrived at his electoral center at 9:15 in the morning, the Zabalarra Public School in Durango (Bizkaia), along with his wife Lucía. Arieta- Araunabeña, to exercise their right to vote.
Urkullu has taken the opportunity to take stock of his 12 years in office and has hoped that there will be a high turnout in the Basque elections this Sunday. He leaves office “with a feeling of work accomplished, of a path traveled and thinking that we have tried to do our best to leave Euskadi in the situation it is in today.”
Another of those who got up early to vote was the candidate for Lehendakari of the PP, Javier de Andrés, who voted at a polling station in the Judimendi neighborhood of Vitoria where he asked people to be encouraged to participate in the elections.
“It is a perfect day to go vote. We trust that we will have the support of many Basques to be decisive in the next legislature. The centrality that we provide in the Basque Parliament is necessary,” he stressed.
EH Bildu’s candidate for Lehendakari, Pello Otxandiano, voted at 10 in the morning, in the small rural town of Otxandio, in Vizcaya. After exercising his right to vote, he has called on citizens to vote to “implement change in this part of the country.” He voted amid applause and shouts of “Pello lehendakari.” He has not been able to vote for himself, since he heads the Bildu list for Álava, not for Vizcaya.
For his part, the leader of Bildu, Arnaldo Otegi, went to the polls around 11 a.m. at the Elgoibar cultural center.
Sumar’s candidate for Lehendakaritza in the Basque elections, Alba García, voted in the Deusto neighborhood in Bilbao, around 10:30 am. After casting her vote, García explained that “due to her excitement” she had forgotten the ballot at her house and she had to vote with one of the ballots she had at the polling station table in she.
He thanked “all the people who are working and making it possible for this day to take place normally” and trusted that “there will be a great turnout” and that election day will run “normally.”
“Today is an important day because there may be a change in Euskadi and a turn to the left,” she warned after admitting that she was “happy” about it and trusted that Sumar would achieve representation that would allow her to “do progressive politics in the Government.” Basque”.
The PNV candidate for Lehendakari, Imanol Pradales, called this Sunday for participation in the elections because it is “a very important day for Euskadi, today the Eukadi government is elected.” Pradales voted at the Santa Clara Cultural Center in Portugalete (Bizkaia), the same electoral college where the former Lehendakari and spokesperson for the PSOE in Congress, Patxi López, also voted.
The PNV candidate wished that “all people participate with their vote in the elections to decide the future” of Euskadi.
The socialist candidate, Eneko Andueza, exercised his right to vote at around 11:30 a.m. at the Maestro Zubeldia public school in Portugalete (Bizkaia), where one of his daughters came wearing an SD Eibar t-shirt that read “Andueza lehendakari”.
After ensuring that the time has come to “decide” and for Basque citizens to “decide what future they want for Euskadi”, the socialist candidate has called on citizens to participate in the election day. Among other politicians, the vice president and advisor of the Basque Government, Idoia Mendia, has done so in Bilbao.
Vox’s candidate for Lehendakaritza, Amaia Martínez, was one of the last to vote at the Iparralde Civic Center in Vitoria and, after that, she visited several electoral months to exchange impressions with representatives of her party.
