The Basque platform, which defends “social and supportive regionalism”, agreed this Saturday in Vitoria-Gasteiz to establish itself as an association.
Euskaraz irakurri: Foruak Orain platformk “konstituzionalismoa iratzarri” nahi du, “nazionalismoaren diskurtsoaren aurrean”
The Basque constitutional platform Foruak Orain-Fueros Now has chosen to become this Saturday “an engine of ideas” that “wake up to constitutionalism” and let him confront “the hegemonic discourse of nationalism” in Euskadi.
Founded on March 5 by intellectuals and former politicians such as the writer Iñaki Ezkerra, the historian Guillermo Cortázar or the former deputy general of Álava Ramón Rabanera, Foruak Orain-Fueros Now held its second regular meeting in Vitoria-Gasteiz, a meeting of an organizational nature in which the members have agreed eventually become an association
Iñaki Ezkerra recalled that one of the platform’s goals is to “fights nationalist centralismwhich has ignored the three provinces”, and therefore the three territories will have the same representation on the board of directors to be formed shortly.
In this regard, he warned of the need for “the province is present in the Congress of Deputies” and stop talking about the “Basque group in reference to the Nationalists”.
On the other hand, Ezkerra emphasized the “good reception” that the so-called Basque Constitutional Manifesto, to which more than a hundred personalities have already clung. “Our primary goal, more than mobilizing the masses, is mobilizing the political class and the constitutionalist sectors,” he stressed.
Other issues discussed at Saturday’s meeting included the need to correct the identification that can arise between “foralismo and bureaucracy” so that the members of Foruak Orain have argued for “thinning the administration in a moment of crisis.” like the current one.
Likewise, Foruak Orain has endorsed the beginning of contacts with associations of victims of terrorism, constitutionalist platforms or entities established in Catalonia, such as ‘Catalonia Suma’, among others.
In terms of contacts with constitutional parties, Ezkerra has acknowledged that there has been no veto and emphasized the importance of proposing a “modern vision of regionalism” and loyalty to the constitutional order.
Source: EITB
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