Ortuzar seeks contact with EH Bildu to make agreements about “build and not destroy”

After a two-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, the GDP has reunited its militants in the Bilbao New Square in case of Aberri Eguna In his speech, PNV President Andoni Ortuzar made EH Bildu an offer of “understanding” and “agreement” “to move this country forward and respond to the demands of the people”, provided they “have a minimum respect” and that “they come to build, not to destroy”.

“We are in Aberri Eguna and although they use the term ‘abertzale’ less and less and replace it with ‘independentista’, here they have reached out to the PNV for agreement and understanding. They must come only to build and not to destroy, that they are thinking of Euskadi and not of the shortest way to reach Ajuria Enea They know, and have proved it in a very important matter such as Education, that when they defend reasonable positions, the PNV is always ready to come to an agreement Here is the offer, a sincere offer of cooperation addressed to EH Bildu and the rest of the political formations. People’s problems,” he explained.

Before the offer, yes, he was very critical of the Nationalist coalition, which he accused of being “so obsessed with getting us out of the way that they don’t care about everything” and disrespecting the Lehendakari “cruelly”. Urkullu, who he says has been treated “worse than Putin”.

Ortuzar has also referred to the situation of war in Ukraine: “There are not enough words, nor hard enough, to judge what Putin is doing to the Ukrainian people.” In turn, he has said that he is “ashamed” of the existence in Euskadi of those who “do” pro-Russian graffiti in the shelters of Ukrainian women and children who have fled this barbarity” in reference to those who appeared in Bilbao last week.

He also expressed the solidarity of the PNV with the Saharan people after “the incomprehensible change of attitude of the Spanish government” regarding its right to free self-determination.

Regarding the PP government pact with Vox in Castilla-León, he has said that it is “another symptom of the deterioration of politics in the Spanish state. Deterioration of the way of doing politics. Deterioration of the functioning of institutions. And deterioration of the minimum requirements of democratic quality”. “Never, never, anyone will see us hand in hand or close to the Vox fachas or those who handle them,” Ortuzar warned the PP, adding that “next Sunday not a single voice will abertzale Le Pen in Iparralde!”.

“Our model is work, effort, honest and responsible management, with our feet on the ground” defends Lehendakari Urkullu

For his part, the Lehendakari, Inigo Urkulluhas denounced the “siren songs” of those who appear in Euskadi with the new “magic recipe of neoliberalism, of “less taxes and less state”, and of others who return with the “new socialist internationalism”, based on the fact that the Public Administration “takes up everything, government spending on everything, as if the resources were infinite.”

Less taxes means less general resources, less public services, less health care, less education and less social protection. It is not our model,” he added, warning that to overcome the current economic situation “there are no magic formulas, no shortcuts”, no “utopian model paradise”, only “effort and work”. work, effort, honest and responsible management, down to earth,” added

On the other hand, he argued that the European Union is the instrument that makes it possible to limitations of the nation state “Today the need is emphasized to strengthen shared governance with a serious application of the principle of subsidiarity based on the founder of the European spirit: to be a union between peoples,” he said.

Finally, Urkullu reiterated that the Spanish government must recognize the responsibility of both the army in revolt against the Republic and the succeeding Francoist government for the bombing of Guernica from 26 April 1937 in charge of German aviation, an ally of Franco.

“President Volodomyr Zelenski remembered Gernika in the Congress of Deputies in Madrid,” Urkullu stressed, and “we remember again the proposal of the Basque Group in the Senate in 2018”, which was unsuccessful due to the opposition of the People’s Party.