The spokesperson for the PNV in the Basque Parliament, Joseba Díez Antxustegi, considers it “terrible” that TVE “gave room” to the president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, to whom “they are putting a vice president’s face,” because, in his view, he represents “anti-politics” and is “very dangerous” for the interests of citizens, especially for the Basque ones.
In statements to Onda Vasca, collected by Europa Press, Díez Antxustegi has admitted that he is not a regular follower of Broncano’s program La Revuelta, although he has seen it when the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the leader of Vox have attended as guests.
As he has pointed out, he is deeply interested in politics and usually follows this kind of spaces even when, in his opinion, they involve “anti-politics,” as in the case of the interview with Santiago Abascal. “I think it’s terrible that public television gave room to a person who, to me, seems very dangerous for the interests of Basque citizens, in this specific case, and that they are putting on him a vice president’s face of the Spanish Government,” he has stressed.
“DISMANTLING SELF-GOVERNMENT”
The jeltzale leader has said that, while last night he was watching the interview with the president of Vox, he was reaffirming “that Basque citizens have to get moving and have to go vote on the 29th, because on the 30th a legislature is going to begin in which everything points to the fact that this person is going to be vice president and is going to come and dismantle self-government, he is going to come and dismantle our welfare system, he is going to come and dismantle what it has taken so, so much to build.”
“Against that, I think what is obvious and what everyone knows is that who he is going to be able to trust to defend it and protect it is the PNV, which is the one that has done it during the last few decades,” he has emphasized, asserting the role of his party as the guarantor of self-government and the welfare model in Euskadi.