In a clear farewell tone, the Lehendakari thanked the society and asked for forgiveness for his mistakes. The president has summarized the “key milestones” of his twelve years as president in three ideas: employment, improvement and respect, cohesion and coexistence.
The elections for the Basque parliament will be next April 21as announced on Thursday by Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu during a performance at the Lehendakaritza.
The announcement comes after days of speculation by the political class, which already identified this date as the most likely.
The Lehendakari has already communicated the decision to the President of the Basque Parliament, Bakartxo Tejeria, and to the heads of the political parties with parliamentary representation.
Immediately clear farewell tone, Urkullu stated in his appearance that “I could never have imagined a greater honor” than that of holding the position of Lehendakari. “I have always tried to remain faithful to the dignity that both the Parliament and the Basque Government deserve as the highest representative institutions of Basque society,” he added.
The Lehendakari thanked the society and recalled that “moments of great difficultyIn this sense, he praised that this “spiral of crises and difficulties should never be an excuse for not doing our work in the best possible way.”
“During this period, society has maintained confidence in the Basque government after its legislature. We felt that confidence was growing,” he assured. For this reason, he thanked the PNV and PSE-EE for their work, putting “the defense of Euskadi’s interests above all else.”
In the words of the president, the self-government has been expanded with eleven new competencies, the Economic agreement is reinforced and in total 121 laws in three legislatures; In 85% of cases, the agreement is extended beyond the parties that support the government.
On the other hand, the Lehendakari has reminded Joaquín Beltrán and Alberto Sololuzethe workers who died in the Zaldibar landfill collapse, to everyone women murdered or abused, and also for all the people who died during the war pandemic. “We feel that pain. It was without a doubt one of the most complicated moments we have had to experience,” he said.
Finally, he summarized the concept in three ideas “key milestones” of his 12 years in office: employment, improvement and respect, cohesion and coexistence.
For example, the president explained that lowering the rate of unemployment “It is a difficult task, especially in a context of crises and wars. It has been a great collective achievement.” In this sense, Urkullu highlighted that in December 2013 there were 875,161 people working in the Basque Country and at the end of last year there were 1,012,947.
“We have been through a series of very serious, unprecedented and global crises and wars,” he insisted, but he believes “we have come out of it.” powerful of this situation”.
Moreover, he once again emphasized that “we live in Euskadi peace. We have left the nightmare of terrorism and violence behind us. ETA has disappeared from our lives forever.” But “it has come many decades too late and there is still much to do so that hatred and violence can never again germinate in our people,” he criticized.
For this reason he commemorated “all victims of terrorism and violence”. “Our solidarity remains a reminder and a condemnation of an injustice that should never have happened and should never be repeated,” he concluded.
Urkullu believes he is “bequeathing a more advanced and fairer Euskadi” to those who will succeed him in power, and has stated that he “has sought in every decision, at every moment, what he sincerely believed was best for our society.” Finally he asked sorry for your mistakesin his only self-critical statement about appearance.
The decision of the call will be published in the Official Gazette of the Basque Country (BOPV) next Tuesday, February 27, when the Basque Parliament will be dissolved and the countdown to the elections will begin.
According to the legal deadlines, the election appointment will take place 54 days after publication in the BOPV. The campaign starts on Friday April 5.
Source: EITB
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