While the rest of the political formations, EH Bildu, PSE-EE and PP, already have their candidates in the middle of pre-campaigning.
Podemos Euskadi, Sumar Mugimendua, Ezker Anitza-IU and Equo Berdeak continue their talks to try to get on joint lists in the next elections to the Basque Parliament, without reaching a coalition, while the rest of the candidates from other political formations all their candidates in the middle of pre-campaigning.
After last weekend the PNV officially declared its candidate for lehendakari, Imanol Pradales, during an event in Durango (Bizkaia), after a long internal process, the space of the confederal left occupied by these four parties and which have two months of contacts . an agreement has still not been reached to attend the Euskadi elections together, which still have no date but could take place in April.
Pradales has already entered the electoral race, when the rest of the lehendakari candidates from other parties have been starring for some time: Pello Otxandiano (EH Bildu), Eneko Andueza (PSE-EE) and Javier de Andrés (PP). ).
For their part, the statements of Podemos and Sumar representatives last week indicated that no progress had been made on the agreement in the two months of talks and that in fact they maintained the same disagreements as at the beginning.
Both parties insist on keeping their respective candidates on the table, the purple party Miren Gorrotxategi (current parliamentary spokesperson for the Elkarrekin Podemos-IU coalition) and Sumar Mugimendua Alba García.
Gorrotxategi himself, who will be declared candidate for the Lehendakaritza by the purple parties on February 2 at the end of the primary process, warned that “nothing was possible with someone who wants to divide the left in Euskadi”, and stressed the difficulty of does not recognize that “there already exists a shared space representing the plurinational left.”
On behalf of Sumar Mugimendua, his spokesperson, Andeka Larrea, stated, among other things, that Miren Gorrotxategi is not a “consensus candidate” and asked for “generosity and hubris.” In addition, Bizkaia’s deputy, Lander Martínez, believed that negotiations on a possible coalition should be concluded this week.
Today, the leader of Ezker Anitza-IU Iñigo Martínez wanted to be a possibilist and assured that, despite the “recriminations” made by some of those involved in this process, the four-way talks continue to develop “intensely”. “
Source: EITB
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