• Corruption: Alfredo de Miguel, former number two of the PNV in Álava, sentenced to 13 years in prison for the corruption case that bears his name
  • PNV.Urkullu recognizes the 'reproachable attitude' of his former teammates

Alfredo Txitxo de Miguel believed himself untouchable. He knew that the establishment - as the chief prosecutor of Alava Josu Izaguirre stated during the oral hearing - protected him. Breastfed in the positions of trust of the institutions controlled by the PNV, his political career replicated that of the generations of nationalists who since 1981 have held the positions of the Basque Government, the three provincial councils, dozens of public societies and hundreds of Basque municipalities.

Born in Bilbao , a computer scientist by profession and in love with Rioja Alavesa , De Miguel joined the PNV by the hand of his sister Eguzkiñe De Miguel , responsible for the Psychiatric Hospital of Álava , and soon achieved professional and personal accommodation in the kitchens of the PNV . Like other nationalist leaders such as Iñigo Urkullu, he took his first political steps in Euzko Gaztedi Indarra (Basque Youth Force, in Basque), the nationalist youths who incorporate the puppies into a quarry process that generates litters of burukides ( leaders in Basque) very decisive to understand the internal balances of the party founded by Sabino Arana 124 years ago.

From Miguel, admirer of Xabier Arzalluz and very ideologically close to the sovereignist leader Joseba Egibar , a place was made in the PNV by the hand of the historic José María Gerenabarrena , the nationalist leader who used his contacts as an engineer of Vitoriana de Electricidad to create a political structure related to the nationalists. Gerenabarrena handed over the party's command to his nephew Iñaki Gerenabarrena in 2002 and placed Txitxo with him, already becoming the nationalist achiever in Álava but, at the same time, a regular interlocutor with other leaders of the Vizcaya PNV as Iñaki San Juan or Sergio Fernández , also convicted.

Miguel, a restrained and educated person, did not publicly display his institutional power nor did he have the projection of Iñaki Gerenabarrena, whom the lehendakari Juan José Ibarretxe appointed as Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries of the Basque Government. Married to Ainhoa ​​Alberdi - also convicted of illicit association and money laundering - De Miguel was placed by the party as manager in a small industrial park in the Ayala Valley.

A minor charge for the ambitious Alava politician who in 2005 took the first step to monetize the role of achiever within a party that since 1999 had been surpassed by the PP both in the City Council with Alfonso Alonso and in the Diputación by Ramón Rabanera . An obstacle that did not prevent De Miguel from building a company structure from 2005 that began with Kataia Consulting and that, together with his party partners Aitor Tellería and Koldo Ochandiano , allowed him to convert his already proven influence capacity into irregular income. Awards of the Basque Government, urban balls, extensions of industrial estates, works in small towns ... all added up to an intense activity in which he brokered with dozens of public positions of the PNV. But then, neither the president of PNV Iñigo Urkullu nor his successor Andoni Ortuzar knew anything about Miguel's busy life of Txitxo .

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