Andoni Ortuzar has abandoned the career to PNV leadership on Thursday. In a statement he has announced that he will not repeat as president, a position he held since 2013 and in which he replaced the exlendakari Íñigo Urkullu. In the note, he said Ortuzar that the “development of this first round” has made him return to his first “intimate conviction, which was to give way to renewal.” The free path is now for the current spokesperson for the formation in Congress, Aitor Esteban, who despite taking many years dedicated in body and soul to Basque politics, has its roots in a Little town of Castilla y León.
Cañamaque, the town in which his mother and one of those dying places of the Soriano Páramo was born, are in suspense for the agenda of his most famous son. By road they precede defensive castles that are marking the border that separated the kingdoms of Aragon and Castilla, adobe constructions and fields that were before wheat and today are sunflower. As soon as you arrive, you see a small cemetery that is more populated than the people itself, in which more than seven people do not inhabit in winter. One of the families that resists abandoning roots is that of The Bravothe carnal, already retired uncles, by Aitor Esteban (Bravo).
Jesus, his mother’s brother, became a sub -inspector of the National Police and was even from Cabo “in the bad years of ETA, in the Basque Country,” he says with Spanish sobriety. He has no problem talking about his nephew but, rather, he enjoys telling old stories and It is proud of the roots that Aitorwith which he shares a certain physical resemblance, he has with Cañamaque.
The ‘Jeltzale’ spends his vacation in the town since he was born and, therefore, some time ago he decided to buy his own home and a pen in the municipality. «For him it is sacred to return every year. Sometimes it even comes alone and goes with the quad to travel around villages. The only thing is that we talk about the fair because we are opposite. I, for example, have always had the flag of Spain at the door of the house. Aitor and I have our debates and are lit because We both seem in geniusbut just send him for time to time, and point, ”Jesus summarizes, with a laugh. “What is true is that he better controls his character,” he acknowledges of one of the best speakers in Congress. The PNV carries it in the salary.
Once Aitor’s uncle agreed with Jesus Posada (who was president of Congress and deputy for Soria of the Popular Party) and ‘asked’ him to straighten his nephew. “Posada has already told me … that I had to straighten myself … that’s like you, with lost right!” He recalls that he told him in one of his visits.
A Castilian village
That the optical fiber arrives is, after a small survey on the land, the main concern of the inhabitants of a town that is proud to be part of Spain. In the streets of Cañamaque it is easier to find national flags than neighbors. Because, in the end, it is still one of those villas in Castile Austeras, agriculturalwhere the mayor of the PP is voted and goes to Mass on Sundays.
«Aitor is one more, here is as if it were not a politician. He only talks about these issues in Congress and with his uncle, ”explains a village marriage while fixing the door of his home. «Do not believe, since it is known to have here A house and a corralthere are people who ask and show curiosity, ”confesses Raul, something baffled because a photographer and a journalist address him by surprise when he returns from the field.
At sunset – and if one is lucky – it can appear on the road in front of the Town Hall Square a large green -green tractor 2016, cute castellano:
-If you love me, Mariano, gives less firewood and more grain.
-If you want grain, Aitor, I will leave you my tractor.
His father and Sabino Arana
The Sabino Arana vein (Aitor is a member of his foundation) was inherited by Esteban of his father, also Basque nationalist, who taught him the rudiments of the Basque. «One is where it is bornwhere he lives. And I wanted to do something for this country. Obviously, I do not give up my ancestors and my family, but they feel in a way, logical, and I think I feel otherwise, logical too. Basque and only Basque, ”said Bilbao in an interview in 2019.
However, by the other branch of the family tree, the famous negative RH does not finish appearing that, according to Arzalluz, confirmed the roots of the Basque people: Esteban are from Valladolid And, according to the relatives of the PNV spokesman, their own parents met thanks to common Castilian ties. “The only one was his grandmother Mertxe,” their relatives point out. And now, of course, his wife, Itxaso Atutxa, daughter of a historic PNV leader (Esteban joined the youth with 16 years) and one of the women with the most internal power within the party.
But, when nobody sees him, he still throws the village where his mother came into the world, Obdulia: in 2000 he dedicated a scientific research to terroir family called ‘The lordship of Seron. A genealogical approach (XIV-XIX centuries) ‘. It turns out that Aitor, who has already declared more than once that “he loves maps, archives and papers,” he found a document for which Don Lope Fernández de Padilla could have been the first lord of Seron (a manor who It would be formed by Cañama, the Villa de Serón de Nagima, Torlengua and Valtueña).
Euskadi, Law and Indians
“You know all the stories or say that you know them … that if the Catholic Monarchs passed here, that if the Arabs here …”, says Jesús Bravo, his uncle. All those inquiries ended them by expressing in The book ‘Tourist Guide of Celtiberia. An imagined country ‘, which he published in 2021. «He has told me …’ We have seen a broken pot in the mountain that went from the Celtiberos’ … but I tell him … aitor, go, that that Puchero is one of those who made Cisco and coal and broke it eating soups, ”jokes the Esteban relative.
Of what the PNV usually presumes more, however, it is his obsession with the Civil War and the American Indians. «In my library, one third of the books are about Euskadianother envelope Right and another third on the peoples indigenous», You can read on your profile of the website of the Basque Nationalist Party. In fact, he was one of the promoters that Spain signed the agreement of the International Labor Organization on indigenous and tribal peoples.
The Bilbao, who has his habitual residence in Ceberio (Vizcaya), speaks -in addition to Spanish and Basque -, English, French, German, some Arabic and some Arabic and Chapurrhea some words in Sioux. He had already predicted in 2011 that one day in Congress he could speak in Basque, although in his day he announced that in his party they would also continue to use Spanish because, he argued, “when it comes to understanding our language, a Spanish partner impossible”. Thus, in Cañamaque, they also understand him when he says that the PNV It does not rule out “at all” New elections.
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