Iñigo Urkullu has criticized the fact that the parties have launched their internal electoral processes to choose their candidates, a mandate considered “exhausted and written off”.
The lehendakari, Inigo Urkullustated on Monday that he “sincerely” does not know when the elections for the Basque Parliament will take place, nor does he consider it “serious” that, due to the fact that the parties are already “in the electoral race” and have launched their internal electoral processes to choose their candidates, a mandate is considered exhausted and written off.
During his speech at the Economic Expectations Forum, organized by The mail and Banco Santander, Urkullu was asked whether he already knows on which date he will call the elections.
In that sense, he replied that he “honestly” doesn’t know. “In the Basque government, we are going to give everything of ourselves until the last second of the mandate,” he indicated.
However, he recalled that the 2020 elections for the Basque Parliament should have taken place on April 5, but that this could not be due to the pandemic, and therefore “the four-year mandate”.
Iñigo Urkullu has reflected on the ‘rum rum’ of early elections and does not believe that because political parties take time to choose their candidates, the mandate should be considered ‘exhausted or written off’. “It doesn’t seem like a serious exercise to me,” he noted. “I am not a candidate and I am performing my duties and I do not know when the elections will take place,” he stressed.
In this sense, he indicated that they have a government and legislative program and recalled in particular the expected approval before the end of the year of the education law of the Basque Institute for Finance, Employment or Budgets. He added that he is also concerned about the possibility of passing the law on energy transition and the fight against climate change.
Source: EITB
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