PNV President Andoni Ortuzar has expressed doubts about the continuity of the legislature with Pedro Sánchez as president despite being one of his supporters. Or at least after having been one of their maximum supports because, after the pact between PSOE and EH Bildu , "the deposit of confidence" of the Basque nationalists in Sánchez has "the reserve light" on. Ortuzar, who has broken his silence after observing the devastating effect of Sánchez's latest political movement, has warned that "it is not possible" to maintain the legislature without "minimal coherence" in the government's pact policy. "I do not know who he wants to govern with; it is not possible with everyone," he sentenced.

The PNV president has described as "incomprehensible management" Sánchez's maneuver to secure the five abstentions of EH Bildu in the parliamentary plenary session that finally approved the extension of the state of alarm. "I warned Sánchez that in the middle of the river it is not good to change horses," Ortuzar said with a half smile in an interview with ETB2's En Jake program. A relaxed gesture after digesting for 24 hours the strange political maneuver of Sánchez that, as Ortuzar has emphasized, has angered practically all his potential partners in Madrid, except for the Arnaldo Otegi coalition. The PNV will pressure Sánchez to trust again the amalgam of nationalist and independence parties that supported him in the investiture against the new open road with Ciudadanos.

The PNV president has used irony to affirm that he does not know the content of the ' pactus interruptus' reached between the parties of the Spanish Government and EH Bildu after the controversy between the vice presidents Nadia Calviño and Pablo Iglesias about the extent of the paralysis of the reform labor. And he has avoided feeding the prominence given by Sánchez to Otegi by putting just two 'buts' to the new attitude of the abertzale coalition in Congress.

" For 40 years they told us that we sold ourselves in Madrid for a plate of lentils and now they do the same", he stressed, in addition to asking EH Bildu for the same predisposition to the agreement in Euskadi with the PNV as that used in Madrid with the PSOE and United We Can.

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