Otegi demands the support of the "people of Euskal Herria" to give a "democratic beating" to the "fascists" of PP and Vox

The leader of EH Bildu Arnaldo Otegi has called on thousands of militants to be able to each add two new voters to give a "democratic beating" to the "fascists" of PP and Vox on the next 29N. The Abertzale coalition has raised the pitch even further against the parties of Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Santiago Abascal, whom it intends to "bitter the election night" because EH Bildu will continue to support Pedro Sánchez in Madrid. Encouraged by cries of Independence, Otegi has warned that "we have not come here to stay at the door or to ask permission to go to the end" with the "Basque Republic" as a claim.

EH Bildu has turned the annual demonstration held in the month of November into its major campaign event by bringing together thousands of supporters in the streets of Bilbao. Otegi, together with the head of the Vizcaya list Oskar Matute, stood in the center of a banner that opened the march with the slogan Euskal Herria defendatu (Defend Euskal Herria, in Basque). During the march, Bildu supporters chanted slogans in favor of ETA prisoners, independence and against fascism.

Otegi has focused his proclamations on the importance of the support "of the Basque people" for EH Bildu. With the wind in his favor from the first polls that give him up to 7 deputies in the Basque Country, the leader of the nationalist left has combined his language of confrontation against the "reactionary bloc" with populist independence demagoguery based on "hope." "We don't need luck; we are lucky to have a country behind us," stressed Otegi, who maintains the leadership of an acronym that presents the former member of Izquierda Unida and founder of Alternatiba, Oskar Matute, as Bildu's reference in Madrid. "We have to be decisive again, be stronger," Otegi demanded of his militants before the electoral event on 29N. In 2023, Bildu committed to supporting Pedro Sánchez as President of the Government and for the last three years it has been the parliamentary group most loyal to the socialist president.

In the last month, Otegi's deputies were the only ones who did not demand the resignation of Minister Óscar Puente after the Urda train accident and last Thursday they voted in favor of the two decrees on housing used by Sánchez to reactivate his prominence in the electoral pre-campaign.