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The Basque Country will hold the regional elections next July and the Lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, will shortly specify a date that he did not want to set before the Basque parties. For almost two hours, Urkullu has met with the representatives of the PP, PSE-EE , EH Bildu, Podemos and Equo Berdeak, to whom he has delivered several documents that support the decision that he had previously adopted. The leader of the Basque PP Carlos Iturgaiz, also pending the decision of his colleague Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has demanded "sanitary and participation" guarantees in the elections and has transferred the responsibility to the Lehendakari.

The Basque elections will be held in July, as all the representatives of the opposition parties have verified after the second meeting they have held with Urkullu in Vitoria. Andoni Ortuzar and Idoia Mendia have positioned themselves in favor of the proposal of the Lehendakari, Equo Berdeak has proposed to include in the call itself a second alternative date before a possible outbreak of Covid-19 and the PP has underlined the demand for "sanitary guarantees and participation".

Arnaldo Otegi (EH Bildu) and Miren Gorrotxategi (Podemos) have positioned themselves against them being carried out within two months . "It is the chronicle of announced elections," Otegi has pointed out that, as the representative of Podemos, he wanted the electoral appointment to take place in September. "As soon as possible", Andoni Ortuzar replied, after the meeting, always from the guarantee to sanitary conditions that would be guaranteed by the reports presented by Urkullu.

The Basque Government will explain its analysis on the development of the meeting starting at 2:00 pm and the spokesman Erkoreka will have to clarify whether the date is official or Urkullu maintains the last unknown until next week.

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