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«The Spanish State is irreformable», the leader of EH Bildu, Arnaldo Otegi, and the secretary general of ERC, Marta Rovira, fled from Justice in Switzerland for 1-O, practically proclaimed yesterday in unison. The leaders of the two parties, both keys so that Pedro Sánchez can be invested in Congress - they already were in 2018 to come to power supporting the motion of censure to Rajoy -, closed the G-7 counter-summit held in Irun with the commitment to go hand in hand in two independentist processes in the Basque Country and in Catalonia, and to jointly prepare the "response" to the impending ruling of the Supreme Court against those responsible for the Catalan sovereignty process.

"The State is irreformable and we are too, and we are not going to give up being independentistas," Otegi said in the conference organized by groups that reject the celebration of the G-7 summit that starts today Saturday in the French town of Biarritz , 20 kilometers from the Spanish border.

Otegi, Rovira and the president of the Parliament of Corsica Jean-Guy Talomani , put the closing in the days of debates in which representatives of United Podemos also participated, like the president of Equo and deputy, Juantxo López de Uralde .

The organization wanted to give a special role to the representatives of ERC and EH Bildu, the two formations that in Congress should at least facilitate with his abstention to Sanchez his investiture if the acting president tries again.

Two partners who ambitiously set out their objective of constituting two republics in the Basque Country and in Catalonia and who have sealed a pact of political collaboration for this legislature.

Marta Rovira, escape from justice since March, participates in the round table through videoconference from Belgium. Etxezarreta

"Euskadi and Catalonia, together, we are stronger," said Otegi, who interpreted as a "lethargy" of Basque society the majority position in favor of the Statute of Guernica while the independence sentiment descends to a minimum in the polls.

The leader of EH Bildu offered his kindest face with continuous appeals to independence as the "tool" to face social problems such as unemployment, the protest of pensioners or the feminist movement.

Otegi eluded any reference to ETA terrorism to value the latest electoral results that place the nationalist left with 22% support and some 350,000 voters in the community. "The independence left needs to make a leap to condition the political patio of this country," said Otegi to maintain the expectations of his militancy after the last two election results, in which the PNV has increased its representation both in Congress and in the Basque institutions that governs with the PSOE.

The leader of the Abertzale left left open the door to a possible support for Sanchez before the investiture, but he predicted that we are heading towards «an authoritarian drift in the Spanish State». Otegi used the left-wing front in Uruguay as a model and appealed to "minimum programs" among left-wing forces without clarifying whether they included the Pedro Sánchez PSOE.

Much clearer was Marta Rovira, who lashed out at the PSOE by considering him "complicit" in a political model that shields what he called "oligarchies." Rovira, fleeing in Switzerland since March 2018 to avoid testifying before the Supreme Court for his participation in the Catalan process , also insisted on the "irreformable state" to predict a new independence process in Catalonia.

"The independence movement must return to the center of the debate in which we want a republic," Rovira said in one of his reflections before a dedicated audience. The ERC leader urged those present to "generate a European and international league of the peoples of the law for self-determination." The ERC representative repeatedly used the cost of receiving the electricity as an example of social injustice and included among her proposals the creation of own Social Security systems for both the Basque Country and Catalonia. Rovira did not notice that in the Basque community the deficit between the payment of pensions and income from contributions is 3,400 million euros per year.

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