Santurtzi (Bizkaia).- The president of the Basque Nationalist Party, Andoni Ortuzar, has claimed the “pride” of being from the PNV and being “nationalist” in the Biscayan Left Bank and Mining Zone.
In a political act in Santurtzi, the leader of the PNV has shown his party’s commitment to this area so that it once again becomes the “engine of Euskadi”.
Ortuzar has starred in the act together with the PNV candidate for deputy general of Bizkaia, Elixabete Etxanobe.
The candidates of the formation have also participated in the next municipal and regional elections in the Left Bank and the Mining Zone, where Ortuzar has expressed that his party is “abertzale” and wants “a free Euskadi”.
“Wear espadrille”
In his speech, the leader of the PNV has asked his people to “wear espadrilles” and “step more on the street.”
He has demanded that they do it with “an antenna always on to know what is being said” and what is expected of the PNV and “also to win the ideological fight.”
According to what he told them, “we can’t be cowed because they tell us that we are the power” and “four lip service ‘progressives’ who later have no votes cannot displace us.”
“Here what counts are the votes on election night,” he said.
“Proud to be from the PNV”
“We have to go proud to be from the PNV, proud to be abertzales here, in Ezkerraldea, in Meatzaldea, proud to have a country project, proud of what we have done,” he told them.
Ortuzar has shown the “bet” of the PNV for this area of Biscay with an industrial past and in which “not so many years ago another political force believed it was their farmhouse”, he pointed out in reference without citing the Socialist Party.
“What happened to you? Why aren’t they here today”, the nationalist leader wondered.
Ortuzar added: “They thought that in four years they would return – to win in municipalities in the region in which the PNV took the Mayor’s Office from them in previous elections-“.
They thought, he continued, “that it had been a mistake on the part of the people, but the people continue to vote for the PNV over and over again because we have known how to transform this area.”
“We are going to pull the country to the top”
“And we are going to continue leading these areas -he has assured-” and “we are going to push this country to the fullest, but in a shared leadership with society”.
For this, the leader of the PNV has insisted on asking the members of the formation to “step on the street” in order to “listen” to the people.
As he has said, “from this symbiosis between the PNV and Basque society will emerge” a “good” future for Euskadi, which “will make the Basque nation increasingly free, which is what we were born for”.
“We do not have a dream project -he added-. We are nationals. We want a free Euskadi. We shouted ‘gora Euskadi askatuta’ (Long live the free Euskadi)”.
“But for the Basque Country to be free, Basque women and men need to be free and for that we have to live well and have dignity in life,” she stated.
Ortuzar has highlighted the “impressive” transformation experienced by the Biscayan Left Bank and Mining Zone.
Now it is “under construction with important projects underway and others to be guessed” where before there was “industrial ruin” and there was “sadness”, with “neglected working-class neighborhoods” and “roads full of traffic jams”, he said.
“But, above all, we are going to build a better future for this area, which has been the driving force of the Basque Country and has to be so again”, the head of the PNV has promised.
The candidate Elixabete Etxanobe
Ortuzar has admitted that despite the improvements, “more cohesion” is needed and to act in a region that suffers more unemployment than other areas.
In the same act, the candidate for deputy general of Bizkaia for the PNV, Elixabete Etxanobe, has reiterated that the best way to face moments of “uncertainty” like the current one is to do it with “strong” institutions.
The candidate has advocated for institutions that “provide security, certainty, trust.”
Likewise, he has indicated that the next legislature will be that of projects such as “the tunnel under the estuary”, “line 5 of the metro” and “the Guggenheim of Urdaibai”. EFE