Interview with Eneko Andueza candidate for Lehendakari of the PSE-EE today, March 13, 2024, on Radio Euskadi

The general secretary of the Basque Socialists, Eneko Anduezahas harshly criticized the ALS associationa day after the public sector strike, a call that he said “possibly” had a political motivation.

In an interview for the program ‘Boulevard’ on Radio Euskadi, the candidate for lehendakari of the PSE-EE also said that he was ‘very respectful’ of the right to strike, although it eluded him to ‘some union’ – and then he explicitly quoted ELA – makes the strike ‘an end in itself’ and has considered that ‘the instrumentalization of strikes with certain political objectives “It is somehow distorting the character and purpose that a strike should have.”

According to him, the Abertzale union plays “what is not”and has referred to Mitxel Lakuntza’s statements in which he “proposed to be the opposition”, something that the Socialist leader said “is a clear statement of intent” to turn the ELA into “something that is not a union”.

However, he has acknowledged that there is “labor disputes open in certain public services” and that these “need to be resolved”, although he is confident that they will be resolved “through social dialogue”.

Regarding the call by Pello Otxandiano (EH Bildu) to agree on a new political status, Andueza emphasized that “Euskadi deserves a new statuteThat no new statusIn this sense, he asked the PNV and the sovereigntist coalition to ‘stop playing cat and mouse’ and accused them of “prevent” the renewal of the Statute these 44 years. “At the moment of truth, when it was necessary to decide on this extension, they put all their eggs in the basket of the right to decide and their sovereigntist and independence daydreams,” he said.

For example, he believes that the PNV “will have to choose” between EH Bildu and PSE-EE, and has indicated that a new status “would be a Basque-style process, like what we already had with the Lizarra Pact or the Ibarretxe Treaty. Plan.”