The national vice secretary of the Partido Popular, Cuca Gamarra, has accused the Partido Nacionalista Vasco (PNV) of being "an accomplice" and "a faithful lackey of the bad left-wing policies of Pedro Sánchez", considering that, although it pretends to "go undercover", it is "as responsible as Sánchez", acting as his "crutch" in the central Executive.
During the closing of the round table "Propuestas para los jóvenes" of Nuevas Generaciones del PP, held this Saturday in Vitoria-Gasteiz, and in which the president of the PP in the Basque Country, Javier de Andrés, and the candidate to the Congress for Álava, Iñaki Oyarzabal, also took part, Gamarra stated that "by this point, the PNV no longer fools anyone".
The popular leader has attacked what she defines as the PNV’s role of "undercover", which she has described as the crutch of "Sanchism", and has predicted that this stage will end on next November 29, the date on which, as she has indicated, its "death certificate" will be sealed.
Along these lines, she has denounced that the PNV "uses hypocrisy and cynicism with unmatched boldness", by "raising a fuss about the 'okupation' and then supporting all the measures that have protected the 'okupa'". She has extended this criticism to the increase in crime, to the future approval of the "real decreto Maricarmen", which, in her opinion, will "make the price of renting and buying keep rising even more", and to irregular immigration, an area in which, as she has said, "they also raise a fuss, to then give papers to everyone".
Regarding access to housing, she has indicated that prices have risen by 75% for purchase and by 45% for rent, blaming this situation on the "bad left-wing policies of Pedro Sánchez, with the support of the PNV, his faithful lackey", so that this party "is as responsible as Sánchez for the housing problem that Euskadi has today".
She has also reproached that "it no longer works, the PNV doesn’t fool anyone at this point; we all know that it has done everything to get a palatial estate back, which wasn’t even theirs but belonged to all Basques, but they’ve kept it as an 'okupa' in Paris".
Gamarra has rejected the idea of assuming that young people cannot become independent and "continue with 34 years in the same room they had at 16", nor "allowing that getting a paycheck doesn’t serve to pay rent and much less to buy a home", because, under those conditions, young people "cannot have in their hands the reins of their future".
In this context, he has promised that the PP will make “Euskadi work again” hand in hand with Spain, and he has advanced that his formation is set as an objective to build one million homes over the next four years, “speeding up and eliminating bureaucratic obstacles.” Likewise, he has announced tax cuts such as that of VAT, which “penalizes young people when it comes to buying a home,” to reduce it by 60%, in addition to allowing it to be deferred.
After emphasizing that “young Basques have the same problems as the Spanish,” he has defended that “a nation is a pact between generations.” “Without young people, we can’t understand either the present or the future of the country. We understand our political project as a pact between generations,” he has stated.
Therefore, he has underscored that, in the next elections, “it’s not about changing seats, but about people with experience and rigor who are capable of bringing solutions, to eliminate obstacles and bureaucracies to build more quickly up to one million homes, carry out reforms so as not to generate bottlenecks, but to streamline the Administration, and so that protection for the ‘okupa’ ends, with real laws.”
At the close of his intervention, Gamarra praised the Basque PP for organizing an event focused on listening to the youth of Euskadi, “who know very well why they are in politics and in the Partido Popular, since they know how to detect problems and propose solutions.” “This party has a lot of future. It has a generation willing to change Spain and be a driving force in Euskadi,” he concluded.
“ALWAYS WITH THE LEFT”
For his part, the president of the Basque PP, Javier de Andrés, censured that the PNV “insists on getting out of where they have been throughout the entire term, but people already know that.” “The PNV says that they are not in political tension, neither on the left nor on the right, and they say that, therefore, they get along with everyone, to try to give a different image,” he pointed out.
At this point, he recalled that the PNV has shared governments with EA and Alternativa, “which are within Bildu,” as well as with the PSOE and with Izquierda Unida, to conclude that “they have always governed with the left.” “Now they say that they don’t reach agreements with the PP, because Vox is in the equation, but it’s a lie, because in Pamplona Vox wasn’t there. They have always negotiated with the left and have not voted against any initiative by Pedro Sánchez in this legislature,” he added.
De Andrés has added that the PNV backed Aznar "in the last century" and did so because "the PP already had an absolute majority to govern, since it had first reached an agreement with CiU".
On the other hand, the candidate for Álava to the Congress of Deputies, Iñaki Oyarzabal, has urged voters in Álava to "not split the vote on the right" and concentrate it on the Partido Popular. "We also have to appeal to those who once trusted in the PNV and know that it has betrayed the middle class and supports all of Sánchez's measures, which bring an end to the future of the young people of our land", he said.
After assuring that young people are "the ones who have been left worst off with the policies of Pedro Sánchez", he recalled that in the 1990s housing "was already the first concern" for young people, but "the PP governed and created the neighborhoods of Salburua and Zabalgana", to "build 20,000 homes" and "solve the problem" which, as he has denounced, decades later "have been created by the PNV and the PSOE, which have destroyed housing policies" in the territory.
In his view, the PNV supports the "purest 'sanchismo'", adding the problems of security and immigration to that of housing. He also directed criticism at his candidate for Congress for Álava, Gorka Urtaran, whom he defined as "the worst 'sanchista', because he reached an agreement with Bildu to remove the PP from the institutions, did not build any housing, strangled self-employed workers, and caused the current disaster in social aid".
The roundtable discussion "Proposals for young people", organized by Nuevas Generaciones of the Partido Popular, featured the participation of the Secretary General of NNGG Spain, Alonso Nieto; the member of the Committee of the National Directorate of NNGG, Jaime Velasco; the President of NNGG Euskadi, Luis Peña; and the candidates for Álava in the general elections, Mikel Rogado and Alba González de Langarica.