After being postponed by the pandemic, the Basque Country and Galicia will hold regional elections on July 12. The Lehendakari and the President of the Xunta confirmed yesterday that this is the date chosen for elections that will be key to settling the Spanish political map for the remainder of the year.. First, because of the relevance of both calls. Second, because it is the first appointments with the ballot boxes after the management of the epidemic. And thirdly, due to the logistical challenge of having to guarantee health security in the voting exercise. No one escapes that the holding of elections in the PNV is part of the catalog of perks with which the Government tries to entertain a key partner to maintain -although with obvious signs of weakness- the stunted majority of the investiture. However, other factors that concern democratic demand and even health guarantees must be considered.. Summer, in principle, seems to be a much better date than autumn or winter to prevent the effects of an eventual outbreak of the coronavirus.

While Íñigo Urkullu affirmed that citizens will have the "greatest guarantees" to vote, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who described the date of the elections as "prudent", has not hesitated to assume that his institutional responsibility is to guarantee that Galicia has a fully-fledged Parliament. operational. Torra should take note of this high-mindedness and not throw balls on calling elections just after moving forward with the Budgets, which was the commitment he made before the pandemic broke out. In the case of Urkullu, his erratic management of the sanitary crisis is punctuated by the collapse in the Zaldibar landfill , which is more than a hundred days old and where the bodies of two operators remain buried. The Basque Government has been unable to clarify the tragedy, clarify responsibilities and guarantee the protection of rescue teams. The deficiencies and the accusations of irregularities in the landfill question the myth of the pragmatic effectiveness of the PNV in government tasks. A different question is the context in which Feijóo arrives at the polls: his hegemony in the center-right and diligence in managing the pandemic -Galicia pioneered rapid tests and offered material to other CCAA- place him as a great favorite for on 12-J.

The result of the Galician and Basque elections will set the course for Spanish politics in 2020 to the extent that it will be inevitable to extrapolate readings from the count on a national scale . The duty of all parties is to adjust the campaign to the measures dictated by the health authorities. That of the administrations of both regions, guaranteeing an electoral day compatible with health security.

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