The EH-Bildu candidate asks for forgiveness from the victims of ETA

Madrid. The electoral campaign in the Basque Country ended with a tough fight for the independence vote, with the coalition of the sovereignist left EH-Bildu slightly ahead, according to polls, of the until now hegemonic Basque Nationalist Party (PNV). In any case, the key to the government would be held by a third force, which everything indicates will be the Socialist Party of Euskadi (PSE), which has already announced that it would support the right-wing nationalism of the PNV against the progressive project represented by the nationalist left.

Until a week ago, the proselytizing campaign in Euskadi talked about the deteriorated public health system, the urgency of strengthening the network of public schools, the need to build new infrastructure to have better connections or the industrial projects on the horizon so that The region continues to be a vanguard and one of the pillars of Europe.

Little, or nothing, has been said about one of the pillars of the two parties that will have the most votes, EH-Bildu and PNV, which between the two could represent up to 75 percent of the electorate: which is the desire for independence and creating their own State. However, this separatist vocation is present and hence the struggle between both parties has become the main battle, especially since the violent acts of the armed organization ETA and the alleged political connection of a part of EH-Bildu.

Hence, the EH-Bildu candidate, Pello Otxandiano, had to come forward to ask “forgiveness” to the victims of ETA. In a television interview, Otxandiano explained that his training goes “towards reconciliation and the construction of a plural memory and respect, reparation, recognition, reparation for all victims without exception.” And he asked the rest of the parties to “remove this issue from the electoral context.” Otxandiano pointed out that “if I am Lehendakari, I personally assume the task of taking this process to the end.” The EH Bildu candidate also expressed his “absolute respect and closeness to the pain of all the victims and especially the victims of ETA. We have a very forceful and very assertive position on the path towards reconciliation and in the construction of a plural memory and in respect, in reparation, in recognition, in reparation for all victims without exception.”

The PNV candidate, Imanol Pradales, has recovered ground against his main adversary and at the end of the campaign he was convinced that he will be able to maintain the government for his party, as long as the PSE keeps its word and supports his investiture, for which that they will need at least 38 of the 75 seats that make up the Basque Parliament. end of note