The PNV turned yesterday the annual celebration of the day of the party ( Alderdi Eguna ) into an act of pre-campaign before the general elections of November 10 with the everlasting demand for greater self-government . Both the president of the formation, Andoni Ortuzar , and the lehendakari Urkullu insisted that the Basque Country is "a nation under construction" , "something else" different from Spain. "It's the milk," the first came to release as a Bilbao accompanied by mockery of the Spanish feeling. Little interest would awaken at this point the rhetoric of Basque nationalism - that benefits so much, also electorally, from the vitola of moderation - if it were not because, as we publish today, the PNV maintains the claim of the right to decide in the new Statute for the Basque Country that is being developed in the Vitoria Parliament. Aligned seamlessly with the political heirs of ETA, the peneuvistas are determined to provoke a new institutional crisis to the State in the midst of the challenge of Catalan independence, aware of the political weakness that today dominates Spain due to a situation of internality and misgovernment that continues too. In addition, as it has been shown during the failed negotiations for the investiture of Sanchez , the PNV does not lose its hope that from the polls will leave a stubborn government that needs nationalism to stay in Moncloa.

At the meeting of the experts appointed by the different parties with representation in the Basque Parliament, the jurist and deputy appointed by the PNV will once again defend that the Statute with which the nationalists want to give Guernica a folder must include the right to deciding on the Basque people , who would be recognized as an independent political subject of the national sovereignty of all Spaniards that is the only one that exists, as enshrined in the Constitution. That non-existent right to decide is a euphemism for not speaking openly of self - determination , and it has no place in our Magna Carta, as the doctrine of the TC has made clear. And already last spring at the meetings where the Basque statutory and popular socialist reform began to be discussed, they warned the PNV that insisting on this route was doomed to the utmost failure because it was going to clash with legality.

But the party founded by Arana , while simulating an image of moderation in contrast to the forward flight of the Catalan secessionists , has formed a tandem with EH Bildu to move forward with a Statute that would open another statute against the State. If it is not remedied, we could find ourselves before a reissue of the Basque process . And this with the socialists turned into the crutch of the PNV in the Basque Government and with a Sánchez who would not hesitate to throw himself back in his arms in Madrid.

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