On 22 January, Iñigo Urkullu and Elixabete Etxanobe attended the media jointly, and Urkullu announced that the institutions they represent will have a two-year period to analyze the viability of the Guggenheim Urdaibai project. It says that changes are being made in the direction of the Guggenheim Foundation in New York, and there is also a lack of information to know the project and its management well (see, Mrs Atutxa: not only the citizens, but also the lehendakari seems that the details that you have allegedly opened to the four winds have not come...).

The Guggenheim Urdaibai Stop platform received a great deal of congratulations, and, finally, we will not deny that we also had a small smile, not because we believe that this supposed decision changes nothing, but because we know what has prompted the authorities to launch such a stupid news in the midst of the election campaign: popular movements on the street, in the media, in political parties and in the institutions and in the courts. If the project had had many favorable opinions, if the citizens had blindly believed their precious words of dreaming, if in the elections of 2023 the PNV had obtained good results in Busturialdea, if the modification of the coast law had not resorted, if no one had made allegations to the modification of the PGOU of Murueta… then another rooster would have done. But if you go and run, you don't vote, and that's why you decide to take the draft off the table so that nobody can talk about it in the next election.

Apparently, but Urkullu didn't say things right. The media disseminated the project frozen for two years, interrupted, which will stand by and re-study its viability later, but this is not what the PNV has in mind. Therefore, the day after the news, the members of the PNV rushed to the media to rectify what Urkullu said the day before: that the two-year stoppage will not interrupt or cool the project and that the project moments are being respected.

But this was also known since December, that is, for the development of the project a period of two years was needed and during that time decontamination tasks, laws in favor of the project, etc. were to be carried out. And yet, in recent weeks, news about the project has continued to be disseminated so that citizens become familiar with its reality. So how should we now understand, right now, that the time has come to silence all parties when it smells of elections? Mr Zupiria, do we have to believe that this change of strategy has nothing to do with the elections?

(By the way, when will citizen participation come when everything is defined? Why choose the color of the macro-parking glass? We do not ask for last-minute symbolic participation or a referendum (to whom should we accept the unsustainable private use of a biosphere reserve? ). What we are asking is for Busturialdea’s citizenship to be involved from the outset in the design and development of a viable and sustainable socio-economic plan for the region).

Although the strategy and Atutxa have made other statements in recent months, Urkullu is right: there is no information about the project. “Auzolan” has been the motto chosen by the authorities of the PNV for this last term, “what is it going to be, do it yourself?”, and perhaps you would like to say that, “make the requirements that we leave without doing”. Do you want information? A few bulls, see how far you go following them.

And we, the obedient citizens, have followed the break-ups and have gone far. By pulling it and from here we have gathered more information than the authorities wanted. Questions relating to the ownership and transfer of Murueta land have been clarified, the environmental consequences of the construction of such an ambitious project in Urdaibai have been realised, and what it can mean to society and the economy has been analysed. That's what we explain to citizens in the talks. And yet, the project promoters accuse us of lying.

Authorities: we, unlike you, are instead of dedicating ourselves to overtime to our professions, and we, unlike you, pay lawyers with money voluntarily provided by the citizens. Do you really think we have time and strength to start building lies? Do you really believe that here we are putting money out of our pocket for the mere will to oppose you? They should stop pointing out to the public and start acting with sense, prudence and responsibility, and not, as has been the case so far, with the dependence on private companies, with the power of the citizens and without showing any respect to the municipalities. Otherwise, the dreams of some will become nightmares of others.

Citizens: we have two years to fight.

Amaia Astobiza Uriarte, member of the Guggenheim Urdaibai Stop platform