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Until recently, the word imposition was a totemical word of the Abertzale left and those of the extreme left. A stimulus to struggle. We used the floor to denounce the problems, the issues, the systems or everything imposed on us by the institutions in their favour. However (I don’t know how long), how things change! In Gipuzkoa it has become the symbol of the unmoved.

On the other hand, it is worth mentioning the word, without removing the importance that this debate has, it is surprising how important it has been to the subject, as if it were the mother of all conflicts, or problems! In the debate, the opposition considers that the plan of the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa is an "impositor". Incredibly surprising that for years, compared to the General Boards, the Council became practically empty (I recall the time of my incorporation, the General Boards voted in favour of the A-8 motorway toll, but the Council that was in the hands of the PNV did not take this into consideration. When the pole of power has moved by hand, hence the jokes) and those who did not even want to hear from the popular question, I was angry to see them scream in the opposite direction. Because memory is interested. Somehow, they've forgotten that some leftist Abertzale mayors were tried for organizing popular consultations about the APR when the PSOE was in power. That is to say, the word imposition, each uses it in a very interested way, always according to its ideology.

I have no doubt on which side justice lies in this debate. Apart from the tricks, I am convinced that in a clear debate it can be easily demonstrated, the waste plan of the current Member, much cleaner than that of the Incinerator, cheaper (the cost of incineration of EUR 427.5 million, half the full plan of the Member) and, furthermore, better from the health point of view. We all know, the opposition and the economic forces behind them (with El Diario Vasco as an effective propaganda tool), what scandals and lies (what rotten rubbish!) They're opening. I live in Oiartzun, and I swear, it's a door-to-door, comfortable, clean and clean, and also a system that encourages everyone to be responsible for their own waste. Those who protested aloud at first are now silent, without arguments.

What a great game! However, I believe that, with substance and form, those on the left, we have to push democracy to the final limit. Like those mayors, they organized consultations about the APR, facing the risk of disabling. And if, for any reason, a large group of citizens are calling for consultation to be organised, not only must it be accepted, but the way must be put in place to carry it out. That is true, and with total legitimacy, with enough time to be well organized. For example, in the next municipal and foral elections, being executed in parallel but jointly. Let whatever comes out, saying that everyone will accept it! Unlike the (lifted) incinerator, the Council’s plan is back. If the current opposition were to win, it would be left to you to repeal the new Waste Plan. However, what it has reversed in 10 years in Catalonia (door-to-door) has been the only city council in the Catalan capital.
I mean. It would not be the first elections, in which ordinary elections are held and special consultations are held in passing. Only two different ballot boxes and a clean questionnaire are needed. However, what has to be stressed is that, being an important consultation, the participatory process is essential, and for the first time in history (on the issue of waste) has been the door-to-door system, in Usurbil (with consultation), in Hernani, in Oiartzun or in Antzuola.


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