From clerk to first Basque MP from Vox: "It is a pride to do it for Abascal and to set foot in his small homeland"

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• 12-J. Elections in the Basque Country

"I know of many that we are going to bother." Amaia Martínez Grisaleña (Vitoria, 1968) has become this Sunday the first elected representative of Vox in the entire Basque Country , where the formation did not even have a single councilor. His seat for Álava , secured except for a major surprise with the count of the foreign vote, opens the doors of the Basque Country and the Basque Parliament to Vox. It is also a symbolic milestone for the party and emulates the one that Santiago Abascal achieved in 2005 and 2009 when she was a regional deputy for the PP. "It is a pride to do it for him," she affirms, "and that he has thus been able to set foot in his small homeland."

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