This makes her the first woman to hold the most responsible position in the Provincial Council. Mendoza did not win an absolute majority on the first ballot as the three PP Junteros voted blank and a second round was needed.
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The General Assemblies of Gipuzkoa held their plenary inauguration session this Thursday and supported the candidacy of Eider Mendoza (PNV)which has collected the 17 votes of its formation, the 7 of the PSE-EE, under the agreement whereby both formations will repeat the coalition government, and one of three from the PP as the other two representatives of this formation voted blank. She thus becomes the first woman to hold the most responsible position in the Provincial Council.
Mendoza failed to secure an absolute majority on the first ballot as the PP’s three junteros voted blank and a second round is needed in which it received 17 support from the PNV, seven from the PSE-EE and one from the PP. been decisive.
The EH Bildu candidate, Maddalen Iriarte, the formation that won the May 28 elections, was supported by her 22 junteros and the two of Elkarrekin Podemos.
Eider Mendoza (PNV) and Maddalen Iriarte (EH Bildu) had presented their candidacies this morning. The first to speak was Mendoza, who during the legislature contacted the rest of the political groups to “cooperate” and defended the roadmap included in the agreement with the socialists. Likewise, the jeltzale candidate has insisted that “it is not permissible to delegitimize the consensus reached within democratic rules”.
In her speech, which lasted an hour and 15 minutes, the then aspiring deputy general pledged to lead a regional executive whose hallmarks would be “proximity, feminism, innovation and long-term vision.” “If I am appointed deputy general, I will form the government Gipuzkoa needs, with a long-term vision, progressive in the social field, innovative in the economic field and close in the way things are done,” she specified.
For its part, the EH Bildu candidate Maddalena Iriarte has warned that Gipuzkoa is “not advancing in the magnitude required by the challenges of the times, nor at the speed it should in relation to the wealth it produces”. In addition, he has defended that Gipuzkoans need “security and solutions” to the “complex” challenges facing the area. According to him, a new “course” must be defined so that Gipuzkoa “is a vanguard”.
According to what he said, the citizens spoke “clearly” in the elections of May 28 and put “the responsibility” of “leading” Gipuzkoa in the hands of the sovereignist coalition, for which reason they ask for the “trust” of the Provincial States coming. She has pledged, if elected deputy general, to lead a regional executive “that guarantees coexistence, cooperation and construction with all and recognition of all victims”.
Source: EITB
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