The harsh municipal 'hangover' for Otegi
EH Bildu already established as his first slogan of the electoral campaign of the generals that the PNV is an ally of the PP of Alberto Núñez Feijóo. The general coordinator of the Abertzale coalition yesterday blamed Ortuzar's party for “campaigning” the leader of the Popular Party by accepting his votes to prevent pro-independence mayors from taking over the municipalities of Vitoria, Durango and Gernika. Otegi, satisfied for having increased the institutional power of the nationalist left in the Basque Country and Navarra, tried to reduce the conflict in Bermeo where the mayor of his formation resigned after having a drunken accident and his local partners now demand that he hold that mayor's office.
EH Bildu assumes that the PNV has agreed behind the scenes on the votes that last Saturday ensured the votes of the PP of Alberto Núñez Feijóo in the three aforementioned consistories. An argument that will be repeated in the coming weeks before the appointment at the polls on 23-J because the votes of the Basque Popular Party will also be essential for the PNV to make Eider Mendoza deputy general of Guipúzcoa against the pro-independence Maddalen Iriarte.
Otegi confirmed a “Holy Alliance” in which already during the campaign he included the PNV with the Basque PSOE and the PP and that now adds Vox. The nationalist leader blamed Basque nationalists and socialists for “buying the marks from the right, from the extreme right and runs the electoral campaign for them.”
EH Bildu saw how last Saturday symbolic city councils in the Basque Country and in Navarra, in which he had grown electorally and who he intended to govern, appointed mayors of the PNV and the Basque PSOE with the support of the PP. The popular Basques achieved in a discreet negotiating process that Daniel García was appointed mayor of Labastida in a tense plenary session in which the three nationalist councilors confessed that they were “disgusted” by how their party had acted to, immediately afterwards, announce that they were leaving the PNV.
EH Bildu intends to consolidate at the general polls the political “earthquake” produced by the results of the municipal and local elections in which the PNV was penalized for high abstention. A threat to the Ortuzar and Urkullu tandem who are already looking towards the final examination of the regional elections in 2024.
Before, EH Bildu will have to solve the unexpected problem that arose in Bermeo after Asier Larrauri, appointed mayor of EH Bildu last Saturday, suffered an accident at dawn tripling the permitted alcohol rate. Larrauri resigned from his position and with his abandonment he has caused a crisis in the Mayor's Office of the Biscayne municipality. The Guzan neighborhood platform wants the new mayor to be Xabier Ortuzar and not the second member of the EH Bildu list in the town. Bildu and Guzan had signed an agreement with which they displaced the PNV – winner at the polls – from the Mayor's Office but, without an agreement, they could lose Bermeo in a sour electoral hangover.