José Manuel Gómez, candidate of the Basque PP in Gueñes, abandoned. The number three of the Basque 'popular' in this small Biscayan town has communicated by letter his resignation to the president of the PP of Vizcaya Raquel González after the controversy over his membership of Eusko Alkartasuna (EA) and having been a spokesman for Bildu between 2011 and 2019. In his goodbye, Gómez stressed that “I have always condemned ETA and terrorism.”

The presence of Gómez as a member of a list in Gueñes -where the PP does not have representation and it is almost impossible for it to achieve it on 28-M- was used to counteract the pressure exerted by the 'popular' against Pedro Sánchez after revealing that EH Bildu It has 44 convicted of terrorism on its electoral lists.

“The Lord wants them sorry”, responded the president of the Basque PP Carlos Iturgaiz before the surprise of incorporating a Bildu spokesman as a candidate for the PP during two legislatures. Gómez also had a legal dispute with the PNV mayor of his town over a dispute over the boundaries of agricultural land.

Until today, the PP candidate has decided to resign “not to harm my political affiliation” in reference to his militancy in EA and his subsequent incorporation into Bildu, the coalition in which EA joined in the 2011 local elections. “I will continue working so that freedom is, sooner rather than later, a reality in the Basque Country,” Gómez maintains in his farewell letter.