Otegi will continue to lead EH Bildu for another four years, and Otxandiano will join the Executive

The EH Bildu political table, proposed by the coalition leadership, includes Arnaldo Otegi as General Secretary to continue leading the formation for the next four years, and will be joined by Sonia Jacinto as Organization Secretary, Arkaitz Rodríguez as Political Action Secretary and Nerea Kortajaarna as program secretary. . They are all part of the candidacy also prepared for what will become the new executive of the formation, in which Pello Otxandiano will be an ex officio member due to his position as spokesperson for the Basque parliamentary group.

In a statement, EH Bildu specified that 37 people, with a greater presence of women and an average age of 47 years, constitute the proposal of the outgoing Political Table to integrate the next national direction of EH Bildu. The Abertzale coalition has indicated that this will take place in the same voting process between February 6 and 8and that will end on the day of the III Congress of the formation, the configuration of the executive branch will also be decided, the other management framework that, together with the Political Table, integrates the bicameral management system that EH Bildu has chosen for this Congress.

The main novelty is precisely that it transfers to two executive decision-making bodies, the Political Table that already existed, although it was smaller in number and will now have an executive consisting of sixteen people.

Among the new developments, the position of general director of Gari Mujika, who will now be responsible for communications, disappears, and Asier Vega, who was coordinator in Bizkaia, leaves the Political Table to make way for Nahia Sanz.

The position of general coordinator will disappear as such and will become general secretary. Arnaldo Otegi is proposed for the position, who will be called again as leader of the coalition, and who will again be accompanied by the likes of Sonia Jacinto or Arkaitz Rodríguez.

In concrete terms, the candidacy of the executive proposes Sonia Jacinto as secretary of the Organization, Arkaitz Rodriguez Minister of Political Action, Gorka Elejabarrieta Minister of Relations, Unai Urruzuno responsible for Institutional Policy, Onintze Oleaga responsible for Udalgintza, Imanol Nieto responsible for Eraketa, Igor Zulaika responsible for Politics and International Relations and Gari Mujika responsible for Communications.

Also included are Ibon San Saturnino as political leader of Álava, Nahia Sanz from Bizkaia, Nekane Zinkunegi from Gipuzkoa and Miren Zabaleta from Nafarroa Garaia. The candidacy for the executive body is filled by Pello Otxandiano, spokesperson for the parliamentary group of the Basque Chamber, and Laura Aznal, spokesperson for the parliamentary group Nafarroa Garaia, who are ex officio members by virtue of their positions.

In addition to all these names of the candidacy for the Executive, the proposal for the Political Table includes: Mertxe AizpuruaSpokesman of the Parliamentary Group of the Congress of Madrid, Idurre Bideguren, Spokesman of the Parliamentary Group of the Senate of Madrid, and Pernando Barrena, Spokesman of the Parliamentary Group of the European Parliament, all ex officio members by virtue of their functions. Also included under the responsibility of the Herrialde Araba Criterium are Rocio Vitero, Eva Lopez de Arroyabe and Ainize Gastaka; for the Herrialde Bizkaia Criterium to María Del Rio, Iker Casanova and Iñigo Hernando; in Criterio de Herrialde Gipuzkoa to Juan Karlos Izagirre, Maddalen Iriarte and Aizpea Otaegi; in Criterio de Herrialde Nafarroa Garaia to Garbiñe Bueno, Mikel Zabaleta and Ander Loyola. The list of the Political Table is supplemented with two other ex officio members: Eba Blanco, representing Eusko Alkartasuna, and Oscar Matuteas a representative of Alternatiba.

This Sunday begins the internal period established to make the relevant proposals for the Political and Executive Board. In addition to the official proposal from the outgoing leadership, there is the opportunity to present alternative candidacies.