A week after the precedent in the General Assemblies of Gipuzkoa, PNV and EH Bildu approved a statement in the plenary meeting of the Assemblies of Bizkaia. PSE-EE and PP voted against and Elkarrekin abstained.
The PNV and EH Bildu, the majority in the General Assemblies of Bizkaia, approved a declaration in the plenary meeting of the General Assemblies to decision-making rights of the Basque people and the bilateral relationship and the new political status. And they did so a week after the previous meeting during the Gipuzkoa Meetings. PSE-EE and PP voted against and Elkarrekin abstained.
The text supported by the two Juntero majority groups calls for compliance with the current statute in its entirety, for the restoration of the self-government that has been curtailed in the autonomous experience and for the extension of the powers to promote the political, social, linguistic and cultural guarantee citizens’ rights. all Basque citizens.
The new status must recognize Euskal Herria as a nation, respect for diversity and the right to decide. According to the statement, relations between Euskal Herria and the state should be bilateral and there is a commitment to self-governance that goes beyond the Euskadi state framework to guarantee the voice of the Basques in the European institutions in matters recognized as their own competences.
During the plenary session of debate on the proposals of the general policy session, EH Bildu spokesperson in Juntas said, Iker Casanovahas defended the right to decide because “it is on the political agenda” and linked to “the demand for a new status”. “It would give us new opportunities as a society and as a people, and I think it is very important that there is a clear commitment in this House in favor of the situation,” he said.
For his part, the PNV spokesperson said in the Juntas de Bizkaia: Jesus Lekerikabeaskoapointed out that it cannot surprise anyone that they support the resolution in favor of a new status, the right to decide and bilaterality, in addition to full compliance with the Statute of Gernika, and regrets that EH Bildu has not made a claim this year on ago. . “Welcome,” he added.
Lekerikabeaskoa has emphasized that his party has always defended “the recognition of Euskadi as a nation, the right to decide” and a bilateral relationship with the state. “We have never had any doubt about it and today our hand or voice does not tremble to say it,” he stated.
The spokesperson for the PSE-EE, Goyo Zurrowho voted against, has pointed out that the new status “that the nationalists love to talk about” “they sometimes deliberately hide so as not to scare people.” In this sense, he emphasized that the socialist position on this issue is already known, “which is summarized in more and better self-government at the service of citizens, guaranteeing plurality and coexistence with regard to the current legality.”
Eneritz Madariagafrom Elkarrekin, recalled that they argue for “the need to make a presentation on self-government that results in a text that has a strong political charge, that does not go beyond the current legal framework, but that allows all possibilities to explore, and does not imply a waiver of the right to decide.”
Source: EITB
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