Bildu already reaches the PNV in Vitoria and threatens the leadership of UPN in Pamplona

EH Bildu wins in Basque and Navarrese town halls as symbolic as Vitoria and Pamplona. In the capital of Álava, Rocío Vitero is already tied in percentage of votes and seats with the former councilor and mayor for the PNV Beatriz Artolazabal. In Pamplona, the city governed in the last legislature by Enrique Maya (UPN), Joseba Asirón (EH Bildu) practically steps on the heels of Cristina Ibarrola, the regionalist candidate weakened by the division of the Navarrese center-right with the breakup of the Navarra Suma coalition .

The macro-sounding of the EiTB group (with 8,007 surveys in the Basque Country and Navarra) predicts a significant growth of EH Bildu in the Basque local and municipal elections, which are also autonomous in Navarra, at the expense of Podemos. The increase in electoral support anticipated by the poll is based on interviews conducted up to May 12, three days after Covite denounced the presence of 44 convicted of crimes related to terrorism on the EH Bildu lists..

The data provided in the first installment of EitbFocus maintains that the PNV with Juan Mari Aburto will achieve 14 councilors in Bilbao and, as a study by Sigma Dos for EL MUNDO collected, borders on an absolute majority. The victory on 28-M of Eneko Goia (PNV) in San Sebastián also seems clear, although, with a week to go until the polls open, the EH Bildu candidate and former mayor Juan Karlos Izagirre closes the gap and consolidates growth that previous surveys had already detected.

But where EH Bildu capitalizes on its growth is in Vitoria and Pamplona. In the capital of Álava, Artolazabal (PNV) and Vitero (EH Bildu) would already be tied with 7-8 councilors and only one point difference in vote estimation. But the PP candidate Ainhoa Domaica (5-6 councilors) and the socialist Maider Etxebarria (5-6 councilors) also participate in the fight for victory.

In Pamplona, Cristina Ibarrola (UPN) leads the electoral race with 7-8 councilors, according to the poll, after losing two, which would achieve the list headed by Carlos García Adanero (PP), since Enrique Maya, as candidate for Navarra Suma, achieved 10 in 2019. The rupture of the center-right coalition gives Joseba Asiron (EH Bildu) the possibility of being the candidate with the most votes (7 councilors), which would make it easier for the PSOE of Navarra to allow the Abertzale coalition to recover the City Council. The Socialists, for the moment, assure that they will not vote for either Ibarrola or Asirón, but María Chivite achieved the presidency of Navarra in 2019 with the votes of Bildu and will need the Abertzale left again after 28-M.

Bildu is also growing in Getxo and can recover Tolosa (Guipúzcoa) after a legislature in which he has whitewashed his political position with a social discourse and the exhibition of his political influence as an ally of Pedro Sánchez in Madrid and María Chivite in Navarra.