The general coordinator of the sovereign coalition has called for “state agreements between Basques and Navarrezen” on things like taxes or food sovereignty: “We don’t need to be a state to make state agreements.”
The general coordinator of EH Bildu, Arnaldo Otegichas not ruled out that it is the next lehendakari candidate of the sovereign coalition. “My role is as far as people ask me. I have never had the ambition to be in a certain position,” he emphasized.
In an interview with the “Boulevard” program on Radio Euskadi, the nationalist leader analyzed the current situation, at a time when “the world has changed and is more unstable and insecure”. Considering this, he claimed: banish “the old indolence and the old use of politics” because “they’re not going to take us to a better country”, and has advocated achieving “State treaties between Basques and Navarrezen“, which bring together the different political, trade union, business and social forces, for example in the field of taxation or food sovereignty. “We don’t have to be a state to make state treaties,” he deepened.
Otegi mentioned “four major vectors that we should face”. First of all, remember that “intervening in the energy sector”, who, in his words, “does the big business of his life, while the whole bourgeoisie, the carriers, the families… we are paying more and more for electricity and gas bills”. He has also argued for a “decisive debate on fiscal policy”because “the working majority have less and less wealth in their hands”. Therefore, EH Bildu proposes lowering taxes on the lowest incomes and raising them on the highest.
Finally, he argued that it is necessary “to have a strategic debate with all political, trade union, university and business forces to sovereignty in all its facets”not only in its political dimension, but also in food, energy sovereignty…
EH Bildu’s general coordinator has confirmed that his message is not “a catastrophic message, but one of hope”. Asked about the governance model of the coalition between PNV and PSE-EE, he says it is “exhausted, because it doesn’t keep the pulse of what’s to come” and believes it “surprising” that the Basque government has “1.9 billion remaining” in the midst of a pandemic”, and after the “austerity measures implemented in Osakidetza and Education”.
Source: EITB
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