The PNV, EH Bildu and Vox will give the starting shot of their campaign this Thursday afternoon-evening for the general elections on the 29th in Vitoria-Gasteiz, while the PSE-EE, the PP and Podemos Euskadi will do so in Bilbao, and “Frente Amplio-Fronte Zabala” will begin in Donostia/San Sebastián.
The official start of the campaign will take place a day after the general strike called by the unions, focused mainly on the issue of housing, and will coincide with the day on which the Permanent Commission of the Congress of Deputies will put to a vote the decrees intended to address the housing crisis.
The Plaza de la Virgen Blanca, in the Alava capital, has been the place chosen by the PNV to kick off its campaign with the slogan “Defendemos Euskadi. Euskadi Zaindu”, at an event scheduled for 21.00 hours in which the president of the EBB, Aitor Esteban, the Lehendakari, Imanol Pradales, and the three heads of the list to the Congress for Gipuzkoa, Bizkaia and Araba-Álava, Maribel Vaquero, Idoia Sagastizabal and Gorka Urtaran, will take part.
Before that, at 19.30 hours, EH Bildu will hold its first campaign rally at Plaza Santa Bárbara in Vitoria-Gasteiz, under the slogan “Posible Egin. Garantía y Derechos”. In this event, the secretary general of EH Bildu, Arnaldo Otegi, will speak, together with Oskar Matute and Idurre Bideguren, who head the sovereignist coalition’s lists to the Congress and the Senate for Bizkaia, and Mikel Otero, number one for the lower house for Álava.
Also present at this rally will be Rocío Vitero, head of list and candidate for Mayor of Vitoria-Gasteiz ahead of the municipal elections scheduled for May 2027.
The PSE-EE will kick off its campaign at 19.00 hours at the Muelle Juan de la Sota in Bilbao, together with Itsasmuseum, at an event at which its secretary general, Eneko Andueza, and the spokesperson in Congress and head of the list for Bizkaia, Patxi López, will take the floor. Likewise, Rafaela Romero and Javier Hurtado will speak, who lead the candidacies to the Congress for Gipuzkoa and Álava.
The PP, for its part, will also launch its campaign in Bilbao, at 19.30 hours, at the Catalonia hotel, with an event in which the president of the Basque PP, Javier de Andrés, will take part, accompanied by the heads of the list to the Congress for Álava, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa, Iñaki Oyarzabal, Esther Martínez and Jon Echeverría.
"Frente Amplio-Fronte Zabala" —the coalition that brings together Sumar, Ezker Anitza-IU and Berdeak-Equo— will kick off its campaign in the Thalassa hall in Donostia/San Sebastián (by the Aquarium), at 5:30 p.m., with a rally led by the top of the ticket for Bizkaia, Lander Martínez, and also by the candidates for the general election Lidia Ucher, Damián García-Moreno, Alba Gutiérrez, Sergitz Moreno and Samira Raiss.
Podemos Euskadi will begin its campaign activity at 6:00 p.m. at its headquarters in Bilbao (Carnicería Vieja 2), with a rally in which the heads of the ticket for the Congress for Bizkaia and Álava, José Manuel de Pablos and Garbiñe Ruiz, will speak, as well as the candidate for the Senate for Gipuzkoa, Yolanda Martín.
Vox, finally, will carry out a poster-planting at 8:00 p.m. simultaneously in the three capitals of the Basque Autonomous Community, although its main event will take place in Vitoria, with the presence of its parliamentarian, Amaia Martínez, and of the Álava member of the assembly (juntero) and top of the ticket for the Congress for Álava, Jonathan Romero.
Distribution of seats in Euskadi on 29 November
On 29 November, the Basque electorate will elect 18 of the 350 deputies to the Congress: eight for Bizkaia, six for Gipuzkoa and four for Álava. In addition, twelve senators will be designated, four for each of the historic territories.
In the previous general elections of 2023, PSE-EE, PNV and EH Bildu each won five seats in the Congress, with victory for PSE-EE in votes, followed by the jeltzales and, very closely, by the sovereigntist coalition. The PP obtained two deputies and Sumar one. In the Upper House, PSE-EE, PNV and EH Bildu achieved four senators each.