The PNV closed its eighth General Assembly yesterday, revealing
an almost unprecedented concern in the nationalist formation
.
The tectonic movements that are taking place in Basque politics and the
sanchismo's commitment to whitewashing Bildu and reinforcing ETA's heirs as privileged interlocutors
, have set off alarms in a PNV that is increasingly fearful of being moved the chair.
Its president,
Andoni Ortuzar
, had to try too hard to claim the «
influence »they exert on national politics.
And it is that his words came after an unfortunate week for the PNV, in which
Otegi and his people had been ahead of them in supporting the State Budgets
and, anticipating the green light of ERC, they drew a panorama in which the peneuvistas were no longer necessary.
There have already been other moments in this legislature in which Moncloa has made an effort to seduce the left
nationalist
to generate jealousy in a PNV that has sustained its electoral success all these decades in possessing the key to Spanish governance.
This has allowed, on the one hand,
shamelessly blackmail successive governments
and, on the other, to appear in the Basque Country as
the guarantor of the privileged self-government
.
Peneuvistas are terrified of losing that advantageous position.
And at the same time,
see the chair in Vitoria also endangered
.
Although there is still almost a year and a half left for the municipal and provincial elections, and more for the regional elections, the PNV has resentment for
a possible tripartite alliance of the left -Bildu, PSOE and Podemos- that unseat him
.
Until recently, it was unthinkable for the Socialists to rely on ETA's heirs, who continue to apologize for the gang's criminal record.
But sanchismo has swept away all moral and ethical scruples in an exercise of mere political survival and has shown in Navarra and, as we see almost daily, in Madrid, that
no longer disgusts the compadreo with Bildu
.
And this changes everything.
Nervousness is leading the PNV to make mistakes such as
wine war
.
The cacicada to promote a denomination of Rioja Alavesa within that of Rioja, which would guarantee nationalism control of the regulatory council of this sub-denomination, has so far ended in failure.
But the way things are
the party may be tempted to fall into radicalization to try to dispute Bildu's space
.
In this assembly they have emphasized "the institutionalization of the right to decide."
As much as this sounds like a rattle, the peneuvistas want to reactivate the self-government update by pressing harder now that there is still such a weak government in Moncloa.
The PNV would do well in
learn from the lesson of what happened to Convergència in Catalonia after decades of hegemony in nationalism
;
In a scenario of radicalization, those who are naturally more radical always have the winners, call yourselves ERC, call yourselves Bildu.
It would be better for the PNV to solve sometime the dilemma of the couch of its two opposing souls.
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