Vitoria (EFE)
Urkullu has participated, together with the president of the PNV in Álava, José Antonio Suso, in the presentation of the nationalist candidacy for the Vitoria City Council in the elections on May 28, headed by Beatriz Artolazabal.
This act was held after a new session of the Basque Parliament in which accusations were heard again by the opposition that the Basque Government protected the former leader of the PNV from Alava Alfredo de Miguel after knowing the order finalizing his conviction for corruption .
The lehendakari has said that the PNV is “synonymous with stability, well-being and progress” and has insisted that “despite the accusations that are unfairly” made against its political formation, this is “synonymous with rigor”.
“We defend a clear objective in all the institutions in which we govern: to improve the quality of life and the well-being of citizens”, he has pointed out and always “from collaboration, from teamwork”.
The institutional presence of the PNV
He has valued the “strength” that gives this inter-institutional collaboration “the presence of the PNV in all the institutions”, something that provides “security, stability and offers room to work”.
After assuring that the PNV model does not offer “impossible promises to keep” or “false expectations”, he has referred to the candidate for Mayor of Vitoria, who was a counselor in his Government, as an “excellent worker”.
He has been convinced that he is “the best candidate” to improve Vitoria, although he has acknowledged that “it will not be easy to improve the work” of the current mayor, Gorka Urtaran, present at the event, whom he has thanked “from the bottom of my heart” for his work for the last eight years.
PNV model facing uncertainty by EH Bildu
Artolazabal has also spoken of the “PNV model” that he has defined as “agreement, stability and certainty” and has confronted it with the model of the nationalist left of “adventure, denial and uncertainty”.
The PNV candidate to be the first female mayor of Vitoria has said that the citizens want the PNV to “lead and manage” the City Council, because it provides them with “security, certainty, rigor in management and trust”.
“They know that the PNV maintains a balance between economic development and human development, without experiments, without fanfare, with day-to-day work and commitment,” he argued.
The president of the PNV in Álava had words of gratitude to the current mayor, “a man of professional and ethical stature, with a vocation for public service, dedicated at all times to the party and his city.”
Suso, who has promised Urtaran that they will continue to count on him because he is “a great value” for the PNV, has said that his political formation offers a project of “illusion and security”.
Lastly, he stressed that the candidate to succeed Urtaran “has all the wicks to lead the city: experience, seriousness and capacity for effort.”