The Secretary General of the PSE-EE, Eneko Andueza, has asserted that EH Bildu has no answers for the priorities and needs of the Basque people "no matter how many 'marketing campaigns' they run," accusing the sovereignist coalition of "a lot of diagnosis and a lot of planning, but little action" because "they lack a true project for the country."

Andueza participated this Saturday in Mondragon (Gipuzkoa) in a meeting with municipal officials from Debagoiena and provincial leaders from Gipuzkoa. This gathering followed similar encounters in other municipalities in the territory, such as Irun, San Sebastián, and Zumarraga, aimed at "boosting our presence in every corner of Gipuzkoa, as we are in the final stretch of the legislature, one year before the municipal and regional elections," stated the leader of the Basque socialists.

After acknowledging that "it is complicated to work day by day in an adverse political environment, with a strong nationalist presence," he highlighted the "capacity to resist, to find a niche, and to ensure our voice is heard" that socialists have demonstrated throughout their history.

In this regard, he conveyed the PSE-EE's commitment to defending "a coexistence without exclusions, progressive policies, and those who have less and need us" because, as he questioned, "if we socialists don't do this work, who will?". "If we are waiting for EH Bildu, we might as well take our time, because it's a lot of diagnosis, a lot of theory, a lot of planning, but a lot of talk and little action."

Andueza pointed out that "the people of Mondragón, Bergara, Oñati, and any town in this area, have priorities such as employment, wages, housing, the future of industry, or the regional economy," and assured that, for these issues, "EH Bildu has no answers, no matter how many 'marketing campaigns' they run," referring to the sovereignist coalition's housing event this Saturday in San Sebastián, because "they lack a true project for the country."

"If you walk without direction, you can say that solving a problem is not easy, as Bildu did this week with housing, and then promise to multiply public housing construction tenfold and claim you can end the problem in 10 years," he criticized, warning that "paper endures everything" and reproaching the sovereignist coalition for having "years and years without ceding a single plot to build protected housing."

He also added that "one can say that a large reserve of public housing land is necessary and one can ignore that the Department of Housing is already working on it." "You can say anything, but reality is stubborn," he reiterated, considering that "the most reasonable thing EH Bildu officials said at their pre-campaign event this week was that there are no magic solutions" and that "the social function of housing must be protected and the market must be intervened from the public sector."

"Welcome, gentlemen of EH Bildu, because these are, among others, the lines of action of the Minister of Housing and the motivations behind the recent Law of Urgent Measures, the same one they rejected in Parliament, and the Decree of Urgent Measures, which came into effect this very Tuesday, because the Socialist Party does not stop at diagnosis," he emphasized.

Eneko Andueza expressed his hope that "EH Bildu's grand plans for this country will not resemble what they messed up with the garbage when they had the opportunity to govern, a problem they elevated to the absurd and grew to an unknown dimension," which "we socialists later had to solve." "That has a name: responsibility. And commitment. Or, in other words, PSE-EE," he stated.

Insisting that "others talk, we act," he noted that it is one year until the regional and municipal elections, and "that will be our test, the true balance where we will verify that it is progressive policies, those that place people at the center of political action, those that seek dialogue and agreements for the benefit of citizens, that are resonating in Basque society."

Andueza affirmed that the Socialist Party is "prepared and it is time to take a step forward, in the town halls, in the provincial councils, in the Basque Government," and stated that socialists are "doing things well, very well; it is a palpable, irrefutable reality."

In this vein, he highlighted that they are "demonstrating once again that we know how to govern, that we know how to manage, and that we always do it, for and for the citizens."

"We are the useful left, the one that contributes to this country moving forward; we are the responsible and committed left; we are those who best represent the interests of the Basques, those who care about their well-being, about finding solutions to the problems that concern them most," he defended.

Andueza assured that "Euskadi, its territories, and its towns and cities fare better when the Socialist Party leads its institutions." "We have provided stability to the various governments, so they can work with tranquility, without distractions, and dedicate themselves to what they must dedicate themselves to, to governing, with imagination, with ideas, to solve the real problems of the citizens," he stressed.

"NEW ENERGY CULTURE"
For his part, the Secretary General of PSE-EE in Gipuzkoa and first deputy general, José Ignacio Asensio, highlighted the "new energy culture that puts people at the center" that socialists are deploying throughout the province of Gipuzkoa. "A transition based on sustainability, energy efficiency, and the democratization of energy," he reaffirmed.

Asensio emphasized the importance of currently having up to 67 energy communities spread across Gipuzkoa. "They are present in 7 out of 10 municipalities, but our goal is to reach 100% by 2027," he clarified, while advocating for continuing to develop "a model of shared self-consumption based on the shared production and management of renewable energy."

As an example of socialist "good management," the Gipuzkoa leader also pointed out that they are "revolutionizing sustainable mobility." "Lurraldebus closed 2025 as the best year in its history, surpassing the barrier of 30 million journeys for the first time." "While others talk, we act," he concluded.