The PNV spokesperson, Aitor Esteban, has recognized that the path to the clearly failed investiture of Alberto Núñez Feijóo "is taking a long time" for everyone and in this sense he believes that the Zarzuela "was hasty" by appointing the leader of the PP as a candidate without having the necessary votes.
"It's taking a long time for all of us, I think Zarzuela was too hasty," admitted the Basque politician, for whom the King should have allowed a little more time for "things to mature" which, in his opinion, "We would have reached this date a little more calmly." For Esteban "everything that needed to be talked about has already been talked about", alluding to Feijóo's inability to obtain the votes he lacks.
After revealing yesterday a secret meeting between him and Feijóo on September 7, the Jeltzale spokesperson explained that the PP's insistence on contacting them has been "constant" given that "they are very close to the absolute majority and with our votes they would arrive", although he has reiterated that "he is not going to have them". "We already said that with the necessary participation of Vox we were not going to enter," he argued again.
Esteban has also acknowledged "a couple of meetings" with the PSOE in which he "cleared up what the political situation was" but in which the subject of an investiture agreement was not even discussed.
Regarding the meeting that the president of the party, Andoni Ortuzar, had with the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont last Friday in Waterloo (Belgium), the spokesman jeltzale has rejected that they are the "facilitator of anything" and that they go "as a pack ". "Junts will negotiate what it sees fit," indicated Esteban, for whom each one will go their own way even though "between firefighters we don't step on each other's hoses." In any case, the nationalist deputy has positively assessed that Junts is "emitting signals" that he wants to speak and wants to do politics.
Esteban has been clear regarding the amnesty requested by the Catalan independentists, defending its necessity because in his opinion the process "was not treated as it should be politically." "It is time to face the Catalan and Basque national problem in a political way," stated the Basque deputy, who has been critical of the president of the CEOE employers' association, Antonio Garamendi, who yesterday rejected the amnesty. "I don't know what the CEOE is doing by getting into a mess," said Esteban, who also had harsh words for the PP spokesperson, Borja Sémper, who yesterday said that his group would not do "the hell of it" by speaking in co-official languages. in Congress. "They won't be able to do it because I believe that no PP deputy can speak Basque," he said ironically. In this regard, he explained that his group will modulate the use of languages depending on the recipient of the message.
