The PP head of the list for Congress for Guipúzcoa, Jon Echeverría, has denounced the "political violence of the utmost gravity" that, in his judgment, is being experienced in Euskadi, where he considers that "freedom is being held hostage" by the "heirs of ETA", and has warned that with the PP "if this is going to end". "We are not afraid and we will keep going around Gipuzkoa come what may and whoever throws stones at us throws stones at us," he said, insisting that "only the PP offers a change to solve the problems" in the Basque Country.
Echeverría intervened this Sunday in an electoral event in the Easo square of San Sebastián, accompanied by the president of Nuevas Generaciones, Ignacio Dancausa, and the president of NNGG of Euskadi, Luis Peña.
The popular candidate has denounced the "democratic anomaly that Euskadi suffers, because of the kidnapping they have done to freedom and to democracy," referring to the attack suffered last Saturday in Hernani against an information tent of the PP. As he has related, "the proetarras attacked us again and the moment they got out of the car they started throwing eggs at us, stones and even firecrackers," which forced them to have to leave the town "escorted."
He added that this same week "a group of hooded men smashed up" the PP headquarters in Barakaldo and "brutally assaulted two brave young people who came out to defend it" and that "they ended up in the hospital for being from the PP". He has stressed that "they are the same fascists as always and it is not an isolated case," underlining that attacking people "just for being from the PP is a constant that is repeated in the Basque Country" and that he himself suffered it "just a few months ago in Arrasate for handing out messages from the Partido Popular".
The popular leader has recalled that "there was a time when eggs weren't thrown at us from the PP people; they would murder us." In his view, "this doesn't happen anywhere else in Spain, this only happens here, in Euskadi," and he has asked himself "what country in Europe throws stones at you for defending the letterheads of the main party in the country". "It is absolutely unacceptable," he has emphasized.
After insisting on the "utmost seriousness political violence" that, according to him, is taking place in Euskadi, where "freedom is held hostage by this lot, by the same old ones, by the heirs of ETA," he has assured that "with the PP this is going to be over." He has promised that "violence on the streets is going to be finished" and has advanced that his formation intends to "increase the penalties for the violent, because "whoever attacks another for their ideas is not doing politics, is committing a crime and is going to pay for it." He has guaranteed that "no Guipuzcoan will ever again leave a municipality in their own homeland escorted."
"FACING IT"
In this context, he has reiterated that he will keep on "going through all of Guipúzcoa, village by village, street by street, facing it." "We are not going to stop, even there where they tell us not to go, let no one be mistaken," he emphasized.
He has stressed that "Hernani has not been the end of this election campaign, it has been the beginning" and he has sent a message to the "violent proetarras," warning that they have "no fear" and that they will continue to tour the historical territory "regardless of who it offends, whoever throws stones at us, will throw stones at us," because his "commitment to Gipuzkoa is much stronger than their hatred."
"We are going to keep going, without fear of anything, or anyone, to explain to all the Guipuzcoans that only the PP is the change for this land" in the face of the "decadence of PNV, PSOE and Bildu," he said. In his view, these three forces "are the same thing" and share "the same ship."
Echeverría has underlined that, in this legislature, "the PNV has voted in this legislature more with Podemos than with Junts for Catalonia," because "it is closer to the extreme Spanish left than to the Catalanist center-right it seemed analogous to."
He has highlighted that the jeltzale formation "has only voted against the 3% of the laws" of the Executive of Pedro Sánchez. In his opinion, "PNV, PSOE and Bildu are the same bloc; they have supported the same model that has led us to decadence," and he has reiterated that in the Basque Country "only the PP offers an alternative to change all the problems."
To conclude his address, he has reiterated that in these general elections "between two models" is decided, between "the decadence of Pedro Sánchez and of his laws that the PNV, PSOE and Bildu have voted for here, or you vote for the change led by the PP." In his judgment, "the time has come to take that last seat away from Bildu; the time has come to recover prosperity, security and freedom in Guipúzcoa."
"DECADENCE"
For his part, Ignacio Dancausa has warned that these elections are "existential for the future of Spain and the Basque Country", because "we have so much at stake, continuing with a decline that is advancing in gigantic steps". He has assured that "young people throughout Spain can’t take any more socialism, can’t take any more lies, can’t take any more neglect, and can’t take any more corruption".
In light of that situation, he indicated that young people look to the PP "with hope", considering that this party embodies "the option to bring about the great changes, the great transformations and the great bold, structural and generational reforms that we need".
Dancausa lamented that the PP can’t campaign "with normality" in Euskadi, when "the only weapon we use to defend our ideas is words". "That’s why we say that we are morally superior to those who yesterday went after Jon and went after our fellow party members," he said.
In his opinion, "they’re cowards and the only thing they show is that their ideas are an absolute failure because they can’t defend them with arguments". He warned them that they are not going to be "silenced", because "they have not the slightest idea of what young people in the PP are like". He defended that "we are going to go to every town in the Basque Country with our heads held high" and he emphasized that "the whole thing about turning the other cheek is over".
Likewise, he appealed to those who are "tired of this decline" and of the fact that "some are singled out for thinking differently", reminding them that the PP is "the only option" to "guarantee" "unity and coexistence", in contrast to a PSOE whose project, he said, is "to build a wall between Spaniards" and a country in which "those who think differently are considered enemies".
Against the project "of Otegi and Sánchez, disruptive and racist", we are going to make unity return and make the State present in the Basque Country for infrastructure, services and to improve the lives of Basques, and we are going to condemn violence, wherever it comes from, however it may be," he concluded.