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EH Bildu is close to victory in Basque and Navarrese municipalities as symbolic as Vitoria and Pamplona. In the capital of Alava, Rocío Vitero is already tied in percentage of votes and seats with the former councilor and mayor for the PNV Beatriz Artolazabal. In Pamplona, the city governed in the last legislature by Enrique Maya (UPN), Joseba Asirón (EH Bildu) practically steps on the heels of Cristina Ibarrola, the regionalist candidate weakened by the division of the Navarrese center-right with the rupture of the Navarra Suma coalition.

The macro-survey of the EiTB group (with 8,007 surveys in the Basque Country and Navarra) predicts a significant growth of EH Bildu in the Basque local and municipal elections, which in Navarra are also autonomous. The increase in electoral support predicted by the poll is based on interviews conducted until May 12, three days after Covite denounced the presence of 44 convicted of crimes related to terrorism on the lists of EH Bildu.

The data provided in the first installment of the 'EitbFocus' maintains that the PNV with Juan Mari Aburto will achieve 14 councilors in Bilbao and, as collected by a study by Sigma Dos for EL MUNDO, touches the absolute majority. The victory on 28-M of Eneko Goia (PNV) in San Sebastian also seems clear although, in the absence of a week for the opening of the polls, the candidate of EH Bildu and former mayor Juan Karlos Izagirre shortens the distance and consolidates a growth that had already detected previous polls.

But where EH Bildu capitalizes on its growth is in Vitoria and Pamplona. In the capital of Alava Artolazabal (PNV) and Vitero (EH Bildu) would already be tied with 7-8 councilors and only one point of difference in vote estimate. But in the fight for victory also participate the candidate of the PP Ainhoa Domaica (5-6 councilors) and the socialist Maider Etxebarria (5-6 councilors).

In Pamplona, Cristina Ibarrola (UPN) leads the electoral race with 7-8 councilors, according to the poll, losing 2 that would achieve the list headed by Carlos García Adanero (PP) since Enrique Maya as candidate of Navarra Suma achieved 10 in 2019. The rupture of the center-right coalition gives the possibility to Joseba Asiron (EH Bildu) to be the most voted candidate (7 councilors) which would facilitate the PSOE of Navarra to allow the abertzale coalition to recover the City Council. The Socialists, at the moment, assure that they will not vote for Ibarrola or Asirón but María Chivite achieved in 2019 the presidency of Navarra with the votes of Bildu and will need the abertzale left again after 28-M.

Bildu, in addition, grows in Getxo, can recover Tolosa (Guipúzcoa) after a legislature in which it has whitewashed its political position with a social discourse and the exhibition of its political influence as an ally of Pedro Sánchez in Madrid and María Chivite in Navarra.

  • Bildu
  • PNV
  • Navarre
  • Pamplona
  • Vitoria-Gasteiz
  • UPN
  • Maria Chivite
  • PP
  • Navarre Suma
  • Pedro Sanchez
  • PSOE

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