The Basque national leader stressed that “we are concerned that we are also facing a step backwards in the State. The Spanish PSOE-PP bipartite is moving back to centralism, the imposition of the uniform leveller of the one and onlySpain. We are moving... forward! We have a model to convert this new era into opportunity.  A new era and a new political status for the Basque Country. A leap forward as a Nation.”

Urkullu spoke of the EAJ-BNP General Assembly and stressed that its “Basque Country, European Nation” proposal would set the following challenges for the party as a country: getting out of the crisis, achieving more self-government and making progress in the construction of the Nation.