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Updated Saturday, April 6, 2024-00:11

The forecasts for the Basque regional elections on April 21

focus on the possibility of Bildu taking first place from the previously unbeatable PNV

. However, beneath this surface lies an even more worrying background: for the first time, both nationalist parties could reach 56 of the 75 parliamentarians, thus opening up the scenario for institutional stability and the maintenance of the common project of coexistence and equality between Spaniards is imp

reversible.

Among the factors that explain this strength, the demonstrated capacity of nationalism to penetrate all areas of society stands out, to the point that

Socialists have also accepted that the school operates as an instrument at the service of the nationalist cause, especially through the imposition of Basque.

. Although on paper the autonomous law recognizes the existence of a model that has the common language of the State as the main language (model A), in practice this freedom does not exist. The case of the Colombian family that we report today, which in the symbolic Ermua is only allowed to send their daughters to school in the immersion line (model D), is a clear example of this. It also starkly reveals that those most affected are, as always, the weakest: the children of immigrants.

In Guipúzcoa there is not even a public school with classrooms in Spanish

. This is an indefensible democratic anomaly. The imposition of Basque is advancing in schools, administration, healthcare... as the axis of navel-gazing policies that not only curtail rights, but also condemn the Basque Country to an economic and demographic decline that is already perceived.

In this stage,

it seems clear that

jeltzales

and socialists will reissue their Government

, but the truth is that the strength

abertzale

It represents an important change. Thanks to the express whitening that he has obtained from Pedro Sánchez and also from the PNV, and

After the step back of former ETA member Arnaldo Otegi - who continues to lead the party - in favor of a gray candidate like Pello Otxandiano, Bildu gains positions

prioritizing the leftist profile over the pro-independence one, while the PNV seeks to convince its undecided voters. But, whatever happens, the almost certain nationalist majority opens the door for alliances to change in the coming years. Although support for independence among Basques is today at historic lows, PNV and Bildu share the will to launch a "new status" and hold a consultation. With the

Ibarretxe Plan

It happened that PSOE and PP joined together to overthrow the project in Congress.

The question is what Sánchez's party would do if a possible sovereign alliance between its two partners translated into a new proposal of rupture and inequality.

. Who would stop a

processes

Basque?

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