The Basque elections on the 21st are approaching and post-electoral pacts are beginning to gain ground in the debate between parties. The big question is who the PSE will make an agreement with, which according to all the polls will have the key to governability starting on the 22nd. Faced with those who take for granted a pact between the socialists and the PNV, the jeltzale candidate, Imanol Pradales, has indicated this Tuesday that the decision on the PSE pact policy will be made by Pedro Sánchez, suggesting that they could well agree with EH Bildu if this were decided in Madrid.
Specifically, the candidate of the Basque nationalists has referred to what happened at the PSOE event this Saturday in Vitoria-Gasteiz. There, both the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and Eneko Andueza, who preceded him in speaking, were present.
The socialist candidate for lehendakari asked the following question: “President: will you tell him again or will I tell him? I repeat it again: we are not going to agree with Bildu.” In his speech, however, Pedro Sánchez addressed other issues and did not answer this question, something that Pradales took advantage of to point out that the PSE “will have to comply with the dictates” of Madrid.
"He talked about Palestine, Gaza, the PP, Madrid and many things, but he did not answer him," said the PNV candidate in an interview on Radio Euskadi.
In this sense, Pradales sows doubt about the policy of agreements of the Basque socialists, who have been repeating ad nauseam that they will not agree with EH Bildu, aware that a part of their electorate would not understand it.
Eneko Andueza, however, does not fully clarify his preference for agreeing with the PNV. “We have said with whom we are not going to agree; We have not said who we are going to agree with. We prefer, first, that citizens decide where they place us and, from there, we will have to compare projects to see what points of agreement we have. That does not mean that everything is done,” he told La Vanguardia this Monday.
In fact, the leader of the Basque socialists has also sought to sow doubt about the PNV pacts. “Perhaps it is more likely that an agreement between Bildu and the PNV is advanced,” he said.
It is not the first time that Imanol Pradales drops that possibility. Last week he referred to the agreement between EH Bildu and the socialists to seize the Mayor's Office of Pamplona from UPN in favor of the Abertzale coalition - an agreement in which Geroa Bai was also involved, a coalition in which the PNV is integrated. "The only thing that worries me is that Sánchez will be tempted to make a fool of himself," he said.
The Jeltzales, however, have indicated that their preference in terms of reaching agreements are the Basque socialists.
