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Updated Wednesday, April 3, 2024-00:10

  • Basque Country De Andrés, "sponsored" by Díaz Ayuso, recovers the "exiles" by ETA that Basagoiti defended in 2012

The connection of Isabel Díaz Ayuso with Basque politics, as the regional president herself is responsible for highlighting in each allusion to it, is limited to the beginning of her career in the PP. In 2005, the

popular

leader already participated as a volunteer in María Sangil's campaign for the regional elections and after them she joined the party in Madrid. Almost two decades later, an electoral campaign in the Basque Country has crossed their path again.

Because in Puerta del Sol the landing of the regional leader in the campaign for April 21 is already being prepared. Sources from the

popular people

of Madrid and the Basques confirm that

"the agendas" of Ayuso and Javier de Andrés are being squared to establish the events

at which the president of the Community of Madrid will finally be present. "We are at the complete disposal of what the party decides," they say from the capital. "We are counting on it, we do not have the date set yet, but it will be there," they point out from the Basque side of the training.

Because it is in the agendas where the PP is finding the biggest problem. Ayuso

has a bad fit on Wednesdays and Thursdays because he must preside over the Government Council and be present at the control session of the Assembly

. And in the Basque PP they are trying to locate some acts of the national president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who will be in Vitoria this Friday, to make way for the presence of the main barons, among which is the Madrid woman. A situation that, according to the

popular

ones, is also being conditioned by the final of the Copa del Rey this coming Saturday, played by Athletic Bilbao, and that affects not only their campaign but also the rest of the matches, altering acts or electoral debates so that nothing coincides with the football match.

While this set of dates is finalized, the PP of Madrid will also move a good number of its members to the election day on Sunday the 21st to serve as representatives in different polling stations in the Basque Country, as has been repeated in the electoral calls in This region. Specifically, according to party sources,

there will be around 1,500 who will travel to do this work

in the points where they detect the greatest need in the Basque formation.

Already in the last municipal elections, those of May 2023, the

Popular Party

in the capital mobilized its militants, but in that case to complete the lists in some municipalities where the Basque PP did not have enough troops. In fact, the Chief of Staff of the Community of Madrid, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, was one of those included in Durango. Ayuso herself, although in this case symbolically, closed the list for the mayor of Bilbao in those elections. "It is something that is now common, but all the people who come to help us will be welcome because we do not have people to cover all the tables," indicate sources close to Javier de Andrés.

The popular candidate for the Basque elections was already presented by the president of the Community of Madrid in her colloquium at the Club Siglo XXI on March 4 in the capital. The regional leader insisted during that meeting on one of her usual mantras in recent months, especially used for the last 28-M campaign: requesting the study of the illegalization of Bildu by taking the nationalist party before the Supreme Court. "I continue to insist that they should be taken for always including those convicted of terrorism in their lists, for not hiding it even in their latest campaign image," she remarked in her intervention.

«The former murderers are now partners of the Government of Pedro Sánchez, which they support with their votes and their secret pacts.

Does anyone know what Bildu agreed with Sánchez in exchange for the investiture? Me neither,

but it was the first pact and it didn't cost them anything," said the popular leader, who also attacked the PNV, a party that has supported governments of the PP Nation, for equating itself with the PSOE by promoting "a so-called struggle at forced marches." of classes" against "the middle class." In fact, Ayuso pointed out that this establishment is "forgotten" despite "the fact that it supports prosperity and coexistence in the Basque Country."