Elixabete Etxanobe (PNV), Iker Casanova (EH Bildu) and Raquel González (PP) will defend their candidacy for general deputy in the Gernika House of Assembly, but the former is expected to be elected with an absolute majority, including jeltzales and socialists.
Elixabete Etxanobe (PNV), Iker Casanova (EH Bildu) and Raquel González (PP) They will defend their candidacy for deputy general of Biscay next Wednesday at the plenary inauguration session at the Gernika Assembly House. Etxanobe is expected to be elected with an absolute majority of the PNV and the PSE-EE. He will replace Unai Rementeria, also a jeltzale, after eight years as deputy general.
Three of the five groups represented on the Biscayan Boards following the May 28 elections decided to submit their candidacy.
Among them that of the current deputy for Public Administration and Institutional Relations, Elixabete Etxanobe, of the PNV, a formation that won the elections and obtained 23 of the 51 junteros in the Chamber.
Similarly, EH Bildu registered a candidacy, which has 15 representatives in the Chamber and proposes Iker Casanova for the post of general deputy. The PP, with three representatives, presented Raquel González as a candidate for the position.
The provincial chamber is supplemented by eight junteros from the PSE-EE and two from Elkarrekin.
programmatic agreement
EAJ-PNV and PSE-EE reached yesterdayTuesday, a programmatic and governmental agreement in Bizkaia for the next legislature “to ensure institutional stability and respond to the challenges facing the territory and Biscayan society,” both formations report in a note.
This pact, which will also be made public today, includes ten common axes that will guide the actions of the provincial government during the 2023-2027 legislature.
For his part, EH Bildu believes that “in the debate between the candidacy of the Basque Nationalist Party and Euskal Herria Bildu, the existence of two models for the territory will be raised: one anchored in the past with old answers, installed in the inertia it is represented by the PNV, and a model for the future, it represented by EH Bildu, who proposes a new global analysis, a new way of doing politics and new progressive policies that defend the interests of the majority”.
Source: EITB

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