Interview with Miren Gorrotxategi candidate for Lehendakari by Elkarrekin Podemos on Radio Euskadi

Following the results of Podemos and Sumar in the elections in Galicia, Podemos’s candidate for Lehendakari, Miren Gorrotxategi, has reiterated her commitment to try to reach an agreement with Sumar, Ezker Anitza-IU and Berdeak-Equo to participate together in the elections for the Basque Parliament.

In an interview for the program “Boulevard” on Radio Euskadi, Gorrotxategi pointed out that “we have time” to achieve unity within the confederal left until the deadline for submitting candidacies and coalitions expires. “In the time that remains, I will do everything I can to achieve this unity. I have always said it, it seems to me that it is a matter of historical responsibility to seek that unity. And I, for my side, and my party. “We’re going to do it,” he added.

Gorrotxategi has stressed that he has “strength”, “energy” and “excitement” to continue leading the project, but that he will do what “militancy decides”. “I will be where I need to be, where my party says I need to be. Wherever I can do my job better, that is where I will be,” he said.

When asked if she was considering being left out of the Basque parliament, Gorrotxategi said so “Euskady is not Galicia”partly because in Galicia, unlike in Euskadi, there was no confederal space in Parliament and because in Galicia 5% is needed to join and in Euskadi 3%.

In any case, he believes that we should “look at what happened” in Galicia. According to him, the result would have been better if the space of the confederal left had presented itself united.

For this reason, Gorrotxategi has stated that he shares the approach of almost 500 people to ask Podemos and Sumar to come together. And in case the Elkarrekin Sumar Bai platform proposes a meeting, the parliamentarian of Podemos Euskadi will say: “I will be there”.