The umpteenth version of the PNV has done it again. 44 years later he continues to win the elections in Euskadi in votes clearly. And he is back in numbers to place one of his own in Ajuria Enea. Learn the name of Lehendakari Imanol Pradales, as we did before with Iñigo Urkullu or Juan José Ibarretxe. Andoni Ortuzar also wins, taking the bet of replacing an active Lehendakari with good valuation figures to double the pulse of EH Bildu. Nobody in Spain would replace an institutional position of that rank as the PNV has done, because nobody in Spain is the PNV: before party than institution, before party than positions, first the historical territories and then everything else. Before PNV than EH Bildu as a slogan. Pay attention to Ortuzar. This victory is a boost for his renewal in the most important position for a jeltzale. And with him as burukide, his entire Biscayan core that has been on the board since the electoral cycle that began in 2014 until today in Spanish politics.
They were fundamental in the 2018 motion of censure, despite the fact that the budget was approved a little earlier by the samurai who meditated in Sanxenxo, Mariano Rajoy. And they have been so again in the configuration of the peripheral and transversal majority that governs Congress, as well as in the Amnesty law. Maestro Iñaki Anasagasti is also right, who this week reminded me that both the death of Lehendakari Ardanza, who has recalled important events in the history of Euskadi, as well as the consequences of Pello Otxandiano's clumsiness of not having an adequate answer to the question about ETA, have modified the trend. Also, of course, the resurgence and courage of Lehendakari-in-waiting Pradales after suffering a pepper spray attack. Resituating all the actors in the last week of the campaign. Pradales had one more week of campaign left to win in seats and Otxandiano one less.
EH Bildu learned what could have been and what was not. Gone is that Herri Batasuna (HB) of the eighties that, despite there being no party law that prevented it, did not participate in the institutions and with 11 parliamentarians despised the Basque institutions, a term with which the HB representatives used They referred disparagingly to the Basque Parliament and Government arising from the Statute. Seven out of every 10 Basque voters have voted for the children of Ardanza or Garaikotxea, because in Euskadi everything refers to that political space that was founded in 1895, before Athletic. From there and from their disputes they all emerged, the current party, its splits, its nemeses. Without the PNV nothing would be the same. What happened? EH Bildu starting as favorites did not know how to compete last week. They rode in the polls located in the post-terrorism scenario, until in a reflex act, Otxandiano's mistake in the El Diario Vasco debate and then in the interview in Ser placed the campaign, at times, in the framework of terrorism. ETA was not a trajectory or a political cycle – as he said – but a terrorist group. And when the error happened, the PNV became the gold standard of 12-M.
The night also, however, reminds us that the generation of democracy votes massively for EH Bildu. Pay attention to the data: its hard core was illegalized in 2009, the year in which there was a PSE-EE government pact with the Basque PP, which then together represented 44% of the votes. Well, those born in that year have not voted yet, but in four years they will. And that will be the real moment of EH Bildu. The true battle of battles.
