Once the presumed investiture of Pedro Sánchez is over, Basque politics will enter the realm of speculation regarding a possible electoral advance. The Lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, must decide if he advances the Basque Parliament elections to March or if, on the contrary, he chooses to make them coincide with the European elections in June, an option that is gaining strength. Faced with this scenario, the PSE, which has already decided that Eneko Andueza will be its candidate, begins to move and offer clues about the axes of its speech, with a central idea: next spring’s elections are not a matter of two. “Those who present it as a fight between two will be wrong,” he said.
Eneko Andueza himself defended this Tuesday that the Socialist Party was “the most voted” in the last general elections in Euskadi, because its citizens “understood that the socialist proposal was the one that suited their needs, the only one that dealt with what truly matters to them”, and has assured that the PSE aspires to “revalidate that victory” in the next regional elections.
But look further,” he said.
Thus, he has defended that, in the face of the “exhausted and complacent model of the PNV”, which he sees as “incapable of responding to fundamental questions for Basque citizens” such as health and education, and in the face of the “EH Bildu model, whose only solution to the problems of citizens is the sovereign bet, independence, there is only one alternative, there is only one possible project, the PSE-EE”.
For this reason, he has warned “those who want to see these elections as a fight between two”, between EH Bildu and the PNV, that “they will be wrong” since there is “a third option”, that of the socialists, which is also ” the only valid one for Euskadi to advance along the path of progress and transformation that has been delayed for years due to the inability of some and others, due to the constant obsessions of some and others.”
Andueza has avoided commenting on the date on which the Basque regional elections will finally be called and has stressed that, “whatever they may be”, the PSE-EE “is already prepared” to face these elections.
“Therefore, when the Lehendakari deems it appropriate, the PSE will go out to these regional elections with full guarantees and, above all, with the best possible country project so that Euskadi has a transformative project on the table and a path that, from Then, it has nothing to do with either an exhausted project or an independence project, with a project that, of course, will respond to all the needs of Basque citizens and all the challenges that are on the table,” he said. insisted.
