Criticism of the Basque Government by members of the PSE Government
- The adjustments and cuts made by the Basque Government to the first phase of de-escalation have received many criticisms from PSE leaders, including some leaders. “It is better to take steps with guarantees than to try to sell that is returning to a normalcy that is not normal,” said PSE Secretary-General Eneko Andueza, Gipuzkoa.
The Spanish Government announced on Saturday that the CAV has moved to the first phase of the decontainment, after which the Basque Government, presided over by Iñigo Urkullu, announced that restrictions will apply to this phase. The decision of the Basque Government has caused much criticism and anger.
What is most striking, perhaps, are the criticisms of the PSE members who govern alongside the PNV in the Basque Government. The PSE Secretary General of Gipuzkoa, Eneko Andueza, and the Secretary of Studies and Programs, Alfredo Retortillos, have written critical messages on Twitter: “If the aim was to dissociate oneself from others, the result has been the greatest confusion among Basque citizens. The reality in the Basque Country is everything. It is better to take steps with guarantees than to try to sell that is returning a normality that has no normality. So no,” Andueza wrote; “No one suspects that people living in the villages of the Urola Valley are confined in their municipalities so that the phases of the Alavesa Mountain of Gran Bilbao are merged, right?”, Retortillos – both in Spanish. "It is not logical that the same (and more restrictive) measures should be taken for the whole of the Basque Country, where there are virtually underserved regions," added Retortillos in his speech.
On Saturday it was the PSE Secretary-General himself who called for dialogue in the face of criticism from education workers and trade unions of lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu: “I ask for prudence and dialogue in decision-making, Lehendakari@iurkullu. Listen to the teachers. They know the difficulties and needs of students.”
If the objective was different from the rest, the result has been the most absolute confusion between Basque citizenship. Euskadi is the one who it is. Better steps with guarantees than trying to sell that returns a normality that is not. That is not the case.
— Eneko Andueza (@enekoandueza) May 10, 2020
In addition, in the containment phase, a uniform decision made sense because it was unknown where there was more presence of infected people. But with what we already know, taking equal (and more restrictive) measures for the whole of the Basque Country, following hardly any cases, has no logic.
— Alfredo Retortillo (@AlfRetortillo) May 9, 2020
