To tell you the truth, anyone reading this probably knows more than I do about the Basque Parliament election results held last Sunday. I was traveling on Election Day, crossing the pond towards Paraguay since Monday the 22 marked the start of Basque Week in Paraguay and Argentina.
I read on the internet, and was told from our newsroom in Donostia-San Sebastian, that the preliminary results were EAJ-PNV 27, EH Bildu 21, PSE-EE-PSOE 16, PP 10 and UPyD 1, according to these it seems clear that the nationalist candidate, Iñigo Urkullu, will be the next Lehendakari one way or the other.
According to what polls had predicted so begins a new cycle in the Basque Government and surely for the country, during an unprecedented political and economic moment that will undoubtedly have its echo, its effect and its impact on the Basque clubs, and Basque communities in the world, who have more and more people wanting to participate and be more present in the Basque reality of an Euskadi that they feel more a part of.
Elections take place in the Basque Country, but meanwhile the Basque world in the Diaspora, with an eye on the results, marches on. As a prelude to the second Basque Week that starts this Monday in Asuncion, Paraguay, the Basques of San Juan Bautista – the capital of the department of Misiones, an hour’s drive from the capital - carried out the ceremony, with the participation of local and regional authorities, of the laying of the corner stone (figuratively) of the Euskal Etxea in this city in which a portion of the population carries Basque surnames and heritage, to which they new want to give content, knowledge, and projection.
Besides the aforementioned attendance of authorities, a bus of representatives also attended from the Euskal Etxea Jasone from Asunción, with president Hector Izaguirre at the head, who was also joined by the delegate of the Basque Government in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, Elvira Cortajarena, who came expressly for the event from Buenos Aires.
Today, Monday morning, various meetings and contacts will take place with the Paraguayan Administration at different levels, that will continue through the coming days. Today, the inauguration of the exhibit commemorating the 75 anniversary of the Bombing of Gernika, talks and other activities that will also involve the Basque and Uruguay administrations continue on Tuesday and Wednesday. The Basque club will introduce the activities, in particular those concerning tourism and bilingualism. Paraguay is a country with a very significant presence of Guarani, although the language enjoys official status the hope is to advance and strengthen it in all spheres of daily life, academic, journalistic, educational, and so they find the Basque language case particularly interesting. The Bizkaian singer, Joseba Gotzon will give a concert and Elvira Cortajarena herself, will give a talk on Euskadi today on Wednesday the 24, the night before the Day of the Statute.
We will continue to talk about all of this. Thursday I will go to Rosario, to a very different celebration that is the Basque Argentinean National Week 2012 whose motto is “100 Years of Nationalism” and which will be attended, among other invitees, by be former lehendakari Ibarretxe. This is a few days. Segi pixkor.
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