EH Bildu has rejected Mikel Mancisidor's candidacy for the Ararteko and criticized the PNV and PSE-EE for negotiating with the PP
Jeltzales and socialists need the support of the nationalist or popular coalition to achieve a qualified majority (three-fifths) in the Basque Parliament, and the former has advanced that it will not support it, while the latter has not yet taken a stand.
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Political parties agree on the need to renew the Gernika Statute on the 46th anniversary of the text
In a context marked by negotiations for the renewal of the text, political leaders have taken the opportunity to express their views on the "renewed Statute".
Congress honors Txiki and Otaegi this Thursday
They will remember the last gunmen of Francoism with a round table where two writers will talk about these events on the occasion of Dictatorship Victims Day.
Javier de Andres: "We need to give a boost to a society that thinks about people's freedom."
Javier de Andrés, president of the PP in the Basque Country, has called for a new Statute that guarantees "the freedom of people." The president of the PP has stressed that political and ideological pressure has led to "the collapse of society."
Esteban, about Sidenor: "There has been an accusation, but prejudices are not at all convenient."
After opening an investigation into the alleged sale of steel to an Israeli arms company, EBB President Aitor Esteban has asked to avoid prejudice: "Value judgments should not be made beforehand." Jeltzale has stressed that "the company will have to explain this."
Esteban: "Sanchez must prove that his will is true, time is running out."
the leader of the PNV hopes that before the end of the year the Spanish Government will take steps and recalls that "a timetable was set" for the transfer of competences.
Laura Aznal: "This people and our sovereignty can't wait any longer."
Laura Aznal, EH Bildu's spokeswoman in Navarre, has expressed the need to renew and improve self-government and fortitude and has therefore called for an update of the Statute of Navarre and Gernika, and has concluded by stressing that "this country and our sovereignty cannot wait any longer."
Eneko Andueza: "I ask you not to confuse and deceive the Basques with the sovereignty imagined"
PSE-EE Secretary General Eneko Andueza has called for self-government to be used as a "useful tool" and not to deceive Basque citizens with "invented sovereignties." On the anniversary of the Gernika Statute, the socialist has called for "innovation" to respond to people's real needs.
President Imanol Pradales highlights the importance of the Gernika Statute on its 46th anniversary
On the occasion of the 46th anniversary of the Gernika Statute, President Imanol Pradales has posted on the Linkedin social network a message entitled The Differential Action of the Basque Self-Government.
The Spanish Government declares that it is up to the judiciary to investigate what a company has done
The First Vice-President of the Spanish Government, María Jesús Montero, has assured us that it is up to the justice system to clarify what happened and has stressed that the regulations prohibiting the export or import of arms from Israel are in force.