Miguel Tellado, secretary general of the PP, traveled this Saturday to Bilbao to preside over an event with members of the Basque Popular Party, and his speech focused on the corruption cases surrounding Pedro Sánchez and the PNV’s support of the Government. In this regard, he warned the Basque nationalists and Aitor Esteban that it is not enough to call for elections, but they have to take a step forward: “Why don’t they provoke them?”.
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In this way, Tellado challenged the PNV to support a motion of no confidence led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo to call elections, since Sánchez intends to extend the legislature for another year. The PNV demands that Sánchez call elections in 2026. Along these lines, Esteban again assured this Saturday that governability is “impossible” with the current Government situation after the indictment of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero broke out.
“Now every day they say that this legislature, which started thanks to them, is over and that elections are urgent. The question is, why don’t they provoke them?”, said Tellado, at an event alongside the president of the Basque PP, Javier De Andrés; the secretary general of the Basque PP and spokesperson in the Bilbao city council, Esther Martínez; and the president of the Bizkaia PP, Amaya Fernández.
Tellado asked Esteban to take one more step and not just limit himself to criticizing Sánchez. “Politicians are not talk show hosts or current affairs commentators,” he stated. “Politicians are here to make decisions. And the time has come for the PNV to make decisions. And to take responsibility for the decisions it made some time ago,” continued Tellado, recalling that it supported Sánchez’s investiture in 2023 and now it is up to them to withdraw it, and the way to do so, according to the Popular Party, is by supporting an instrumental motion of no confidence so that Feijóo calls elections.
In any case, Tellado has not only asked the PNV to take a step forward, but he also wanted to hold it partly responsible “for everything that is happening” because of the support it gave to Sánchez’s investiture. “Today it is time to make decisions to remove a mafia and corrupt government like Pedro Sánchez’s,” he stated.
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Furthermore, Tellado reproached that the PNV “continues governing” with the socialists in Spain, in Euskadi and “there in all the places where it can,” a way to try to wear down a party that, like Junts, has allied with the left in recent years and that the PP wants to take advantage of to grow electorally in the Basque Country and Catalonia, monopolizing.
In fact, the speech of De Andrés and the Basque cadres has been aimed at outlining a three-way alliance between PNV, PSE, and Bildu that is “deteriorating” the Basque Country, with the loss of economic activity since, as INE data indicate, since 2019, GDP has grown less than the Spanish average. The weight of industry is also losing momentum in a territory where the secondary sector has traditionally had great economic relevance.
Under this discourse, the PP aspires to establish itself as the alternative to nationalism and the left in the Basque Country and Catalonia, where it sees room for electoral growth and, therefore, will multiply its events at a time of maximum political pressure for PNV and Junts due to the motion of no confidence.
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