The general secretary of the Basque Socialists rules out a “return to sovereignty obsessions”, which he believes are “doomed to fail”, and asks the PNV to clarify whether it is committed to the agreement on the self-government proposal or wants to travel along the path to independence that he signed with EH Bildu”.
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The General Secretary of the PSE-EE, Eneko Anduezahas asked “brightness“around the ambitions that the PNV has a head start on the round of contacts on the future political status, as the Basque Socialists “will not waste time” if the Yeltzales choose to “implement the agreement that was mainly based on the right to decide, and therefore on the road to independence that he signed EH Picture“.
In an interview for Radio Euskadi’s “Boulevard” program, Andueza was asked whether the PSE-EE will participate in the round contacts that the PNV plans to start in October, as the leader of Jeltzale, Andoni Ortuzar, advanced yesterday. The socialist leader responded affirmatively, because “socialists have never shied away from debate”.
However, he has asked the Jeltzales to clarify whether they want to resume “the pact signed two terms ago with the PSE-EE and Podemos” within the Presentation on self-governmentAccording to Andueza, this agreement is “a good basis” and can “accommodate other political parties with representation in the Chamber, the PP itself and also EH Bildu.”
“If we go back to debating the obsessions about sovereignty and independence, we will be doomed to what always leads us down that path, which is failure,” he warned, citing the Lizarra-Garazi Pact or the so-called Ibarretxe Plan as an example. . Thus, he made it clear that the PSE-EE “is not going to waste time” if the Jeltzales choose to “implement the agreement that was based primarily on the right to decide, and therefore on the road to independence with whom signed EH Picture“.
Asked about the Abertzale majority Within parliament, Andueza believes that the fact that PNV and EH Bildu have 54 of the 75 seats “does not mean that this majority is in line with what the vast majority of Basque society thinks about this issue.” On this point, he recalled that some sociological studies suggest that “independence sentiment is currently minimal.”
For the socialist leader, who nationalist majority “does not represent plurality that this country has.” In this sense, he pointed out that “the polls have produced a majority in parliament, which consists of the two groups that support the government that currently governs in Euskadi.”
Source: EITB
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