“United and with regard to plural, we will overcome the challenges of the future”

The Lehendakari Carlos GaraikoetXEA Today, the difficulties of the first Basque government of democracy that has been supplying since 1980, but emphasized that Euskadi is a “brave and hard -working” society that has surpassed the challenges and, “United and with regard to plurality”, will overcome in the future.

The Ajuria Enea Palacio de Vorroria-Gastiz Has Hosted on Monday the Tribute of the Current Basque Government to GaraikoetXEA, 87, Who Has Come Accompanied By Three of the Advisors of his Government: That of Education, Javorial, Etxenike, Javorial, Etxenike, JaviTroel Etxenike, JaviTroel Etxenike, Javie Worksuel Etxenike, And the economy and the treasury, Pedro Luis Uriarte.

Garaikoetxea stopped being no longer being on Lehendakari in 1985, when he founded his party, the PNV, Left and Eusko Alkartauze, a split that was not mentioned today, in an act of tribute and recognition organized by the current Lehendakari, of the PNV, die Iñigo also has Iñigoe also has Iñigoe.

The Lehendakari GaraikoetXea has shown his gratitude to Imanol Pradales for having “the generosity” of convening this action in Ajuria Enea, “an engaging act, which I also have the pleasure of sharing with three advisers, has Dichio.

“45 years that we have lived, enjoyed it. Today we look back with gratitude, to celebrate what we have built together. I have the certainty that Euskadi, who has overcome a turbulent past with Note, will successfully be confronted with the complex challenges of tomorrow and will model them in their favor,” added Garaiketxea.

For the Lehendakari of that first government: “The challenges of the future are great, but our ability is to overcome them. We are a brave and hard -working nation. United, of loyal cooperation and respect for plurality, we will build a better, more prosperous and sustainable Euskadi,” he has noticed.

From that time, 1980, GaraikoetXEA remembered that it had to overcome difficulties and very painful moments. “I can’t erase that explosion that ended the life of children at their school (in Ortella), those floods … We knew how to rebuild everything that collapsed, but left a mark in our memory forever,” he remembered.

Garaikoetxea has rejected a message to his current successor: “Imanol, Luck, Mood and Bull.”

The Lehendakari, Pradales ImanolHas the example of the first Basque government of Democracy to launch the tools that Euskadi allowed to grow in prosperity and good “and mainly thanked the inheritance of what his Lehendakari was, Carlos GaraikoetXea, who he defined as the” Extraordinary Architect of Eeuskadi. “

Pradales has considered an honor to have the presence of them all and thanked their work, especially their predecessor. He remembered a recent visit to his house in Pamplona, ​​in which he had the opportunity to read excerpts from a letter that was the leader of the Navarro PNV, Manuel de Irjo, referred to him in the “Rales of the dictatorship”, in which he started to think “in the Basque institutions” of the Basque institutions.

“It was a prophetic letter because a five years after the content was released. Lehendakari Garaikoetxea designed the plans and turned out to be an extraordinary architect of the Basquedi of the future that he introduced himself. The one we all know today. The Lehendakari and his government did not fall asleep. On the contrary, they said,” he said.

Pradales has also recognized the inheritance of those who accompanied him and assessed some of his performance, such as the law of standardization and use of Euskara and that of Basque Public University, the economic concert, the Ertzaintza, Eitb and Hait, Osakideetza, among other things. “They were a dream team of Basque democratic nationalism,” he said.

Memories of three of his directors

Those who were counselors of education, Pedro Miguel Etxenikeof territorial policy and public works, Javier Lasagabasterand economy and finance, Pedro Luis UriarteThey have shared anecdotes of their establishment in the Basque government.

Apart from the large institutional pillars of the Basque autonomous community as the status of Gernika and the economic concert, the three of their experiences have assessed as Lasagabaster has done, which was claimed beyond the large infrastructure as the father of the Bidegorris.

“I was the only one who did not know Basque and the name came to visit me after a city in the United Kingdom,” said Lasagabaster, who was nostalgic and excited to return to Ajuria Enea, emphasizing the moment of “peace and progress” that Euskadi lives.

Etxenike has thanked GaraikoetXEA for the “success of Basque Batua” and has emphasized his “courage” in a jocular tone that had gambled on him as another member of his government “who now had the photos and her that he had.”

He announced that he felt sadness “for those who are not” when he returned to Ajuria Enea and in a more political tone the status and reaching a “single and differentiated relationship with the state”, as well as his own judiciary.

Uriart, on the other hand, thanked for being presented for “a position as important” as that of the Minister of Economy and Finance. “This garden and what is behind (the palace of Ajuria Enea) I bought it, and some things,” he claimed.

After raising the importance of the economic concert and the role of GaraikoetXEA in his performance, Uriarte took place in the sprout of the Gernika tree that is planted in the gardens of Ajuria Enea, who has defined as ‘a promise of the future’. “Euskadi will continue and Euskadi will continue,” he concluded.