The umpteenth version of the PNB has done it again. 44 years later he continues to win the elections in Euskadi with clear votes. And he is back in numbers to place one of his own in Ajuria Enea. Learn the name of Lehendakari Imanol Pradales, as we had done before with Iñigo Urkullu or Juan José Ibarretxe. Andoni Ortuzar also wins, who wins the bet to replace an active lehendakari and with good ratings to beat EH Bildu in the fight. No one in Spain would replace an institutional position of this rank as the PNB has done, because no one in Spain is the PNB: first party than institution, first party than positions, first the historical territories and then all other things. Before PNB than EH Bildu as slogan. Pay attention to Ortuzar. This victory is recognition for his renewal in the most important position for a jeltzale. And with him from Burukide, his entire Biscay nucleus that has been in the commanding table since the electoral cycle started in 2014 until today in Spanish politics.
They were instrumental in the motion of no confidence in 2018, despite the fact that a little earlier they approved the budget of the samurai who meditated on Sanxenxo, Mariano Rajoy. And they have been again in the configuration of the peripheral and transversal majority that governs Congress, and also in the Amnesty law. Master Iñaki Anasagasti is also right that this week he reminded me that both the death of lehendakari Ardanza, who has remembered important events in the history of the Basque Country, and the consequences of the little trace of Pello Otxandiano to have an adequate answer to the question about ETA, they have changed the trend. Also, of course, the resurgence and courage of the lehendakari-in-waiting Pradales after suffering a pepper spray attack. Resituating all the actors in the last week of the campaign. Pradales needed one more week of campaigning to win seats, and Otxandiano, one less.
EH Bildu learned what could have been and hasn’t been. Far away is that Herri Batasuna (HB) of the 1980s which, despite the absence of any party law that prevented it, did not participate in the institutions and with 11 parliamentarians despised the Basque institutions, a term with which the representatives of HB referred contemptuously to the Basque Parliament and Government arising from the Statute. Seven out of 10 Basque voters have voted for the children of Ardanza or Garaikotxea, because in Euskadi everything goes back to that political space that was founded in 1895, before Athletic. From there and from their disputes all came out, the current party, its splits, its nemesis. Without GNP nothing would be the same. What happened? EH Bildu starting as favorites did not know how to compete in the last week. They rode in the polls located on the stage of post-terrorism, until in a reflex act, Otxandiano’s spitting in the debate of El Diario Vasco and then in the interview with Ser placed the campaign, for moments , in the context of terrorism. ETA was not a trajectory or a political cycle – as etzibar – but a terrorist band. And when the mistake happened, GNP became the gold standard of 12-M.
The night also, however, reminds us that the generation of democracy votes massively for EH Bildu. Warning: its hard core was outlawed in 2009, the year in which there was a PSE-EE government pact with the Basque PP, which at the time together represented 44% of the vote. Well, those born that year haven’t voted yet, but in four years they will. And this will be the real moment for EH Bildu. The true battle of battles.
