El error de Estella del PNV en perspectiva histórica

Zusammenfassung

This article offers the view of a historian about the present Basque matter and it analyses critically the politics of the «PNV» from the signing of the Estella�s Pact with the radical nationalism in Septembre 1998. In his opinion, this strategic switch of the PNV means to break with its centenary historical line whose greatest political success has been the Gernika�s Statute and to relapse into the Estella�s error in 1931: its alliance with a violent and undemocratic force (at that time the Carlism, nowadays «ETA» and «HB»). The direction of the PNV must choose between the dilemma of democracy or fascism, just like it did in 1936. The PNV is put on a historical spot: it must decide between the democrats� unit or the Basque nationalist front, between consolidating the real Basque Country of Gernika or dreaning of the virtual «Euskal Herria» of Estella. The construction of the latter is possible though the nationalist dictatorship and the terrorism of «ETA».