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The spokesman of the PNV in Congress, Aitor Esteban , said on Saturday that his party has not signed the manifesto for the self-determination signed on Friday by several nationalist parties because in politics it is necessary to make proposals "beyond the complaint" and the "statements and photos".

Esteban, during a pre-election act in Vitoria, has thus referred to the Declaration of the Llotja de Mar that on Friday signed in Barcelona a dozen Catalan, Basque, Galician, Balearic and Valencian nationalist parties in which they claim an agreement on the crisis Catalan, the defense of the right to self-determination and the release of "political prisoners."

The spokesperson of the PNV has defended the need to make proposals looking for future solutions and more in these times in which "emotions prevail." "We must move beyond the statements and photos," he said.

He has considered that the manifesto "does not correspond in its content" with the line raised in the so-called Barcelona Declaration that the PNV signed in 1998 together with CIU and BNG and which consisted of "a joint, proactive action, to make the necessary reforms in the territorial scope ".

"In politics you also have to know how to read the opportunity of the moments," said the leader of the PNV, who has acknowledged, however, that his party does not ignore the "gravity" of time and has stressed solidarity with the cause of the people Catalan and with political prisoners that his party has shown "on many occasions."

"Closeness and support"

"They know our closeness and our support," he insisted while confirming that today the PNV will be in the independence demonstration convened in Barcelona by the ONC and Òmnium Cultural organizations. "But we - he has continued - know who we are. We do not need to be repeating it every day and the electoral needs of some in Euskadi (in reference to EH Bildu) to relocate on the political board will not make us deviate from the political path that is our own. "

Esteban has spread this message during the presentation of the PNV candidacies for Álava to the general elections of November 10 in an act in which the president of the party in this territory, José Antonio Suso , and the candidates for the Chamber have also participated Baja, Mikel Legarda , and the Senate Almudena Otaola .

Aitor Esteban, who presents himself again as head of the PNV list to Congress for Bizkaia, has said that a minimum institutional stability is needed that facilitates the dialogue and an adequate scenario to address economic, social and territorial challenges and for this, has opined, "no incendiary speeches are necessary".

He has warned that in the next term "many curves" come because the airs "that blow from the south are of recentralization and attack on self-government" because the right "in its different versions" is swollen and has gone to the extreme.

"What will the PSOE do? Are you going to really try an agreement with Podemos and other formations willing to support you or will Sánchez choose to facilitate the investiture Casado and Rivera?" He asked. "I assure you - he has warned - that the agreement with Casado will not be free because he already spoke clearly: more centralism and hard hand."

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