Editorial: El Español

• Aberri Eguna has been used more as a pre-campaign platform than as a Basque Homeland Day celebration.
• The upcoming autonomic elections have intensified the PNV's criticisms towards EH Bildu.
• The president of the PNV has ridiculed Otegi's strategy of exhibiting a more moderate profile.
• Ortuzar accuses Bildu of having a 'hidden agenda' and of trying to reap the benefits of the PNV's economic successes.
• Bildu aims to stoke and exploit the fading separatist sentiment among jeltzale voters.
• Urkullu alerts about the threat posed by the abertzales ruling the Basque Country.

Conclusion: The threat of the State's hollowing out in the Basque Country could tip the balance in favor of rupture-independentism, and would regret Euskadi ceasing to be a thriving and recognised European nation to become an unknown neighbourhood somewhere.

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