The 31 October is when I write these lines, and many Basques who on 1 October were in Catalonia as observers are astonished at what has happened since the proclamation of the Republic. They waited for a mass initiative similar to 1 October, that is, a lot of people on the street to protect the headquarters of the Generalitat, to show how to vote on the day of the referendum, and rejection 155. Some have also been surprised (network witnesses) that the independentists would come to the elections on 21 December (someone who was close to Puigdemont's squatting, when the president seemed to be calling elections). Because they returned enthusiastically from Catalonia, the people, the people, he firmness, an empowered, sovereign, self-owned people. Those of us who hadn't gone were there, very excited to see what we had seen. A well-known independentist has returned to Barcelona in the first weekend of the establishment of the Catalan Republic. Their stay has been bitter for the number of Spanish flags, for the tranquillity of those of the extreme right, and surprised by the silence of the independence movement, “the unionists have also been empowered and the streets have not been ours, but of them”. Suddenly, a stimulating tweet from the Cup Antonio Baños member gives him a smile: “Do you remember they didn’t find the polls? Silence is not always an imaction.”

In the meantime, there is a desire to take advantage of the winds coming from Catalonia so that a push can also be made here as soon as possible. But, at the same time, compared to its speed (in all its senses), many think that “inaction”, immobility, slowness prevail in Euskal Herria. “This people is asleep and it’s time to wake up,” I heard each other. If so, what has slept him? What has left it without force and exhausted? Do they not have to see the forces, the efforts, the sweats and the red fatigue that for years have dissipated in the attempt to extinguish the “fire”? However, if it has happened in Catalonia, it can also happen here, in its measure, step by step. Who would say that eight years ago Joseba Asiron would be mayor of the City Headquarters and Uxue Barkos, President of the East? Some call it insignificant, but it's been the most brutal, and that's our field of play for now. However, to see if the Navarros “unionists” are not too empowered, and to see if, by a year and a half, we are able to give a second mandate to Asuncion and Barkos.