December 6, the day of the Spanish Constitution, has left new headlines in Euskadi from the campaign of Ernai, the Sortu youth organization, against Spanish symbols. And also a carousel of political evaluations on a festive day.
In the case of Ernai, who this week attacked the headquarters of the Basque PP, in Bilbao, or knocked down an Osborne bull in the south of Álava, he has removed the Spanish flag from several buildings, including the Gernika Assembly House. In addition, a graffiti has been made with the motto ‘Gurea, ikurriña’. The Biscayan Provincial Parliament Bureau has issued a “condemnation” signed by PNV, PSE-EE and Podemos, but not by EH Bildu. The PP has also joined the complaint. “They have attacked a space that symbolizes the popular sovereignty of Bizkaia and that houses the Gernika Tree, a universal emblem of freedom, democracy and peace of the Basque People,” the General Meetings have defended.
On a more political level, the PNV spokesperson in the Congress of Deputies, Maribel Vaquero, insisted this Saturday that “bilaterality must mark the relationship between the Basque and Spanish Governments” and has asked the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to give “the necessary knock” for compliance with the Statute of Gernika.
On the occasion of the celebration of the 47th anniversary of the Constitution, Vaquero has criticized that the State “maintains the main challenges and deficits.” After recalling that the nationalist formation abstained in the 1978 vote, Vaquero lamented that “almost five decades later, the lack of recognition of nations within the State remains.” EGI, the youth of the PNV, have directly rejected the constitutional framework on their social networks. This Saturday was a “foreign” party and they have demanded “independence.”
For her part, the spokesperson for EH Bildu, Mertxe Aizpurua, has warned that “moving towards the recognition of plurinationality and the democratic regeneration of all levels of the State necessarily implies courage and conviction, not flirting with PP and Vox, neither by action nor by omission, neither in Madrid nor in Euskal Herria.” The coalition “has nothing to celebrate” on December 6, he added.
For her part, Amaya Fernández, president of the PP of Bizkaia, has regretted that “defending the Constitution” is today “a revolutionary act despite the fact that it is synonymous and is a symbol of coexistence, freedom, and the pillar on which” the Basque Statute and the forality are based.