The Game of Thrones continues and the changes of stickers in Alava municipal politics. The days go by and Saturday June 17, when the different Town Halls are constituted, is getting closer. After several days on the lips of each other, the future is complicated for the PP in Laguardia.
The popular ones won again last 28M, but obtained 4 of the 5 seats necessary for an absolute majority. The mayor of the PNV, Raúl García Ezquerro, was left with 3 councilors and EH Bildu, although he lost votes, managed to keep the remaining 2.
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Some mathematics that opened the doors for both formations they will reissue the pact they already signed in 2019 and, once again, they will leave the PP out of the government.
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However, recent political movements suggested a change of cycle. The have offered their votes “gratis et amore” so that Rocío Vitero is not the mayoress of Vitoria-Gasteiz. They will support the ‘txapela’ agreement of the PNV and PSE. And they announced that they would do the same in other places such as Durango or the Gipuzkoan council to stop EH Bildu.
In return, they did not hide their desire to to govern in Laguardia and Labastidatwo symbolic enclaves of Rioja Alavesa due to their historical importance.
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I wish that every time seems more complicated. This same Tuesday, García Ezquerro, on Radio Vitoria, has confirmed that he will stand for re-election. And he does not hide his intention to do so with the support of EH Bildu.
“We will present ourselves to the election because we present ourselves to win and we still have options, we are the party that has grown the most, with some historical results in Laguardia and an almost technical draw”, he declared.
The PP is clear that a government of PNV and EH Bildu would be a red line in their negotiations
And it is that only 12 votes separate PP from PNV. Citizen support, in the opinion of the jeltzale, so that “we continue, is what the people have asked for at the polls.”
García Ezquerro acknowledges that has not yet spoken to ABB, but he is sure that they will support his position. However, his words have compromised the leadership of the PNV in Álava.
PNV-PP negotiations
The PNV and the PP are these days in full negotiation. Not because of the support of the popular for the candidacy of Etxebarria in Vitoria-Gasteiz and Ramiro González in Álava, but because of the necessary support so that, as of June 17, these governments are not weak and can draw up budgets and projects forward.
And the pulse of García Ezquerro has not liked the Alava PP at all. This same Tuesday, its leader, Iñaki Oyarzabal, showed his surprise and discomfort. “That decision has been said by a gentleman in an interview, officially it has not been made and the PNV has informed us that it has not confirmed it. I ask for prudence, what each one may want is one thing and responsibility in politics is another,” the popular leader reacted.
“They can’t ask us to step aside,” insists the acting mayor
Therefore, the words of the acting mayor of Laguardia could put the entire agreement at risk. Because for the PP a PNV-EH Bildu pact would be a red line: “the PNV cannot present candidates neither in Laguardia nor in Labastida.”
“Bargain”
In this sense, García Ezquerro himself acknowledged that he had not yet met with the councilors of EH Bildu in Laguardia. “We will do it shortly, it is in his hand. It is not that I ask for your votes, but out of responsibilityis what the people, more or less, have asked for at the polls, because these 4 years it has worked wonderfully”, he stressed, referring to his previous agreement.
“The PP is nervous and I understand that they try to ask for it, but they are not going to get it”
He has not hidden a certain discomfort due to the doubts in recent days about the position of the PNV in Laguardia. “They can’t ask us to stand aside when, adding votes, PNV and EH Bildu we obtained a very large majority in the municipality and, right now, it is the most democratic government for Laguarida. And not one in a minority of the PP “, he has insisted.
That’s why, does not agree that Laguardia is a “bargaining currency” in the more general political game. “The PP uses what little it has, Laguardia and Labastida are the only important municipalities in the Basque Country where it has achieved something and they have the option to govern. They are nervous and I understand that they try to ask for it, but they are not going to get it,” he concluded.
And what is the position of EH Bildu in all this? Well, despite the criticism for the union of the PSE and the PNV to prevent them from governing, Arnaldo Otegi has offered his votes to prevent popular mayors. “Whatever the PNV does, we will give it the Mayor’s Office in Laguardia and Labastida“, he reiterated last Sunday in an interview with El Correo.
The show must go on.
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