Andoni Ortuzar hopes to repeat a “solid government” with the PSE-EE

The chairman of the EBB of the PNV, Andoni Ortuzarbelieves that in the coming months there will be “a somewhat artificial distance for the benefit of the Basque government” between his party and the PSE-EE, but he is confident that relations will return to normal and that the election results the formation of a ‘solid government’.

In a published interview DeiaOrtuzar has indicated that the decision of the party leadership to nominate Imanol Pradales as the candidate for lehendakari has been taken unanimously “looking at the medium and long termto elect people who can, in the long term, give the party a horizon of stability and sustainability,” and for two or three terms.

The Euskadi Buru Batzar (EBB) has raised this decision with the LehendakariIñigo Urkullu, who accepted it “with total normality”. as a “man of the party,” Ortuzar assured. “It’s a normal change. The extraordinary would have been a fourth term. There never was, except for a very brief period of Lehendakari Ardanza when we came out of the split. We did something that is very common in the party.” politics and political practices “There are very few presidents who go to the fourth term,” the PNV leader added.

To be over continuity at the head of the PNVOrtuzar has indicated that it is not his turn to decide because, just as with the lehendakari candidate the proposal is in line with the Executive, this is not the case with internal positions. “We cannot present ourselves nor can we say what we want because the internal charges are mandatory. We will have to wait for the trial to open. I will be here no matter what they tell me,” he declared.