Lakua Mulls Defeat

As you may know by now, the ruling party in the Basque Autonomous Community was the big loser in the recent electoral process, an electoral process pregnant with repression and deceptive moves by Zapatero's government, an electoral process in which a large portion of the Basque citizenry was left without a valid political option after an Spanish judge banned two political parties from participating in a clear throwback to Francisco Franco's reign of terror.

Well, here you have the mea culpa from the Basque government:

Politics

Basque government

"There haven't been the best results for the tripartite govt."

03/11/2008

There will be an early election in the Basque Country if the Spanish Government says no to dialogue with the Basque Government, the spokeswoman for the Basque Government said.

Spokeswoman for the Basque Government Miren Azkarate said that the Basque Premier Juan José Ibarretxe will call an early election or a referendum if the Spanish Government "says no to dialogue" with the Basque executive.

In a press conference in Vitoria-Gasteiz after the weekly meeting of the Basque Government's councilors, the spokeswoman for the Basque Government Miren Azkarate said the results of the Spanish general election on Sunday were not "the best" results for the three parties in the tripartite government.

Azkarate added that Ibarretxe keeps "his hand held" to dialogue and agreement and says that in case the Spanish Government "says no to dialogue without giving a chance for an agreement", the Basque Parliament will decide "whether to call an early election or to call a referendum to overcome the situation of paralysis".

According to Azkarate, the Basque PM has already got in touch with José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero to tell him "his agenda is open".

The truth is, their lost comes as a result of their open betrayal against the people they claim to represent.

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