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José Luis Sabas

refuses with a smile to make statements while, obediently, he goes to buy fish.

In just 50 meters, you are stopped twice to congratulate you.

"You have my support and my blessing!" Says a man from Bilbao who is about to give him a hug.

Sabas, the involuntary protagonist of the first political battle in the Basque legislature, has exposed the lies used by the Minister of Health,

Gotzone Sagardui

, in the

Basque Parliament

to avoid his responsibility in

the chaotic vaccination process in

Euskadi

and has made evident the "rigor, transparency and honesty" of which the

lehendakari

Iñigo Urkullu

Last Tuesday, January 26, EL MUNDO asked Urkullu in an extraordinary appearance before the press: «Will your Health Minister stop if it is confirmed that he has lied in his explanations about the vaccination in the hospital of

Santa Marina

? ».

Urkullu, annoyed, avoided answering with the excuse that Gotzone Sagardui would clarify the details of a chaotic vaccination that she assumed in the first person since last December 27 she put on a white coat to receive the first

405

dose of

Pfizer

at the doors of the hospital

Txagorritxu

in Vitoria. Five days after Urkullu's appearance, all the opposition parties and all the health unions denounce Sagardui's lies.

The

Prosecutor's Office of the Superior Court of Justice of the Basque Country

will open an investigation at the Santa Marina and Sagardui hospital, protected by the

PNV

and the complicit silence of

PSE-EE

, expects the political storm to subside at a critical time for the pandemic. "Sagardui is doing terrible damage to Basque health when Basques are dying every week," he blamed him.

Carlos Iturgaiz

, president of the

PP

Basque, to Urkullu last Friday in the Basque Chamber.

"Sagardui is a scoundrel", they say in Sabas's environment after the role of the Health Minister for a long week.

Graduated in Medicine, councilor with José Luis Sabas in the

Bilbao City Council

and a Basque parliamentarian, Sagardui has tried to blame Sabas for the vaccination of 505 health workers, management personnel and a variety of professionals linked to the Santa Marina hospital in Bilbao.

The Basque Health Minister announced the resignation of Sabas as manager of Santa Marina and the manager of the Basurto hospital

Eduardo Maíz

such as the strong response to the irregular vaccinations of managers who took advantage of their positions to immunize themselves ahead of health professionals, but Sabas defended, and will continue to do so, that his vaccination along with all the personnel linked to this hospital center was approved by Sagardui and his team and responds to the criterion of shielding the social health centers where they live around

10,000

Basque elders, those most punished by the pandemic. "I would do it again," Sabas confessed to his surroundings, ready to defend before the Prosecutor's Office and in the Basque Parliament - the opposition claims to create a commission to investigate the facts - the " truth "in the face of the crude manipulation used by Sagardui and his team. An uncomfortable" truth "for the

lehendakar

i Urkullu, for the PNV and for the PSE-EE.

Urkullu prepares for a barrage of parliamentary initiatives that will force him to continue defending his weak adviser.

"He has lied like a rogue", they emphasize in the area closest to Sabas.

But the nationalists are hit because the person who has kept his truth treasures a brilliant curriculum in the Basque Administration and was the dolphin of

Iñaki Azkuna

, Minister of Health and the best mayor of Bilbao.

The Socialists, handcuffed to their partner in government, are silent.

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