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Pablo Iglesias will not visit the Basque Country until the last week of the electoral campaign, already in the final stretch, and will probably do so only once on a date yet to be specified. In the midst of the continuous disembarkation of the national leaders of the PP and the PSOE in support of their candidates -Pablo Casado has already traveled to the community three times and Pedro Sánchez, once- Podemos has removed its secretary-general, weighed down by the controversy of the Dina case, in which the origin of the leaks of the contents of a phone card of the former adviser to Iglesias, Dina Bousselham, is investigated, and in which the Vice President of the Government has gone from being injured to being a suspect having retained and destroyed the investigated SIM card.

Curiously, now that Pablo Iglesias has woven a party in the Basque Country to suit him, placing his associates both in the candidacy for the Lehendakaritza, Miren Gorrotxategi , and in the direction of the formation, Pilar Garrido , the visits of the formation leader They have reduced to a minimum in this campaign, perhaps in an attempt to alienate the candidates from the controversies in which the also Vice President of Government is being involved.

It is not a good sale to go from being "a victim of the sewers of the State" to exposing the internal sewers of the purple formation in the internal struggles for power. We throughout the history of the Basque Country have not been on the margin of internal struggles, quite the contrary. Iglesias has pursued for years placing his faithful at the forefront of the formation in Euskadi, until now in the hands of the party wing that in those days of Vistalegre II supported Iñigo Errejón against Pablo Iglesias, opening a wound that, three years later, it had failed to close.

Miren Gorrotxategi, a historian of Podemos Euskadi, always in the orbit of the secretary general, presented herself to the primaries to choose to be a candidate for Lehendakari as "the candidate endorsed by Pablo Iglesias. Gorrotxategi left no doubt that it was the bet to force the change of course of the territorial.

The Basque crisis of Iglesias

Her triumph over the bet of the party leadership in Euskadi, Rosa Martínez , led to an internal crisis with the chain resignation of the executive led by Lander Martínez , who not only left her post, but all presence in the party to start a process at the gates of the pre-campaign that ended just a few days ago, just before the electoral campaign started, with the election of Pilar Garrido, also close to Pablo Iglesias, as the autonomous coordinator of Podemos Euskadi.

Pablo Iglesias, in the kitchen of the entire process of primaries and candidacies, now has a party in Euskadi made to order, and on 12-J he is playing with electoral results that are difficult to foresee, openly betting on a coalition left with EH Bildu and the PSE, which Miren Gorrotxategi repeats as a mantra in each of his interventions, following in the wake of the agreements between socialists, United We Can and the abertzale coalition in the Congress of Deputies.

The first polls were not very flattering for the new Elkarrekin Podemos , the name of the coalition in Euskadi with Ezker Anitza-IU . Some polls even spoke of failure, with the loss of up to three seats. The last CIS, however, published on the eve of the start of the electoral campaign, has resurrected the possibilities of the purple formation to store furniture, by foreseeing a repetition of the results of four years ago, with 11 seats, and even scratching one more.

The party running for the 12-J elections is very different from the party that took third place in the Basque Parliament four years ago. From the outset, Elkarrekin Podemos has left Equo-Berdeak out of the coalition , also due to a specific veto by Pablo Iglesias, despite the fact that in the Basque Country the Greens did not join the More Country party in Errejón as they did in the rest of Spain, precisely to safeguard the coalition that they maintained in the Basque Parliament with Podemos and with Ezker Anitza-IU.

LAGs and their consequences

The green candidate , José Ramón Becerra , has been a very active parliamentarian in the Basque Chamber in these four years under the umbrella of Elkarrekin Podemos, and a fundamental part of the agreements that led to the coalition -with the opposition of Ezker Anitza- IU- to support the Basque Budgets, and could lead to a flight of votes.

It remains to be seen if they will make profitable at the polls openly show their commitment to collude with Bildu and the PSE, despite the fact that none of these formations have just picked up the gauntlet. "In Madrid, two days before the general elections, there was a resounding no to Podemos being in the government," they recall from the formation.

The controversy for refusing in principle to support the commission of investigation in Congress on the LAG, although later amended, fell like a jug of cold water among many of its supporters in the Basque Country and may weigh on the electoral result.

Own Pili Zabala , a victim of the GAL and was a candidate for lehendakari by Elkarrekin he can in 2016, expressed his "disappointment" with the game at the same Pablo Iglesias.

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