“If you continue this policy to say the strongest thing; if the populism, reactionary drags us to the other, I don’t depict anything in politics. I don’t feel useful. In the mud always wins the populist”, declared the spokesman of the PP in the basque Parliament, Borja Sémper , just a year ago, in an interview to THE COUNTRY. This Tuesday, the 44años, it has left definitively the policy, as has been argued in this journal, disenchanted with the landscape and the statements risqué and excited for a new life in the private sector. “I’m very uncomfortable a climate of permanent confrontation in the policy. I have the bitter feeling that the policy walks a road that is not edifying. It should be prestigiarla and that you return the respect,” he said in the press conference where he confirmed his progress.
The decision brings to an end a career of almost three decades. With 16 years tried to hit him in the institute by a letter that had been sent to THE COUNTRY. It was titled Fear and she Sémper explained what it meant then to have a few different ideas on what was to be a “good basque”: that they burned the car of your father, that you were told “go to your country”. With 17, he joined the New Generations of the PP, “dazzled” by the figure of Gregorio Ordonez, deputy mayor of the popular in San Sebastian, that he would be killed by the ETA shortly after, in 1995. “I’ve had this your example all this time,” he said Tuesday.
Then it was not easy to find politicians that are willing to put your name on electoral lists. Sémper gave the step and from June 1995 until 2010 he was a councilman in the town Hall of Irún. In 1997, one of those kids brave, Miguel Angel Blanco, was kidnapped and murdered by the terrorist group. Sémper got into politics when being a politician in the Basque country it meant going to many more funerals of those who used a young man of that age, to look under the car and move about, always accompanied by a shadow, his bodyguards. “I’ve spent more than 15 years of my life protected by the Police, the Guardia Civil and the Ertzaintza. That’s what I want to do first is to thank you that today, thanks to them, I can give this press conference,” he said at the headquarters of the PP of Gipuzkoa. “No one can say that I have done in that circumstance dramatic a flag, but I do want to say that it was worth. That a thousand times and it would engage for democracy, coexistence and freedom, even at the expense of my youth, of my safety and the peace that all human beings, and particularly young people, deserve,” he added. “They could not kill me, but neither were able to amargarme life”.
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threats —”Sémper, we will kill you”, they wrote in the streets of Irun when he was 21 years old— not intimidated. The disappointment, yes. These days, the sister of Gregorio Ordóñez has criticized the leader of the PP, Paul Married, by understanding that you use the victims of terrorism, and Sémper, attorney at Law, has decided to accept the latest offer from the private sector to start to work in a multinational company, Ernst & Young, as director of institutional relations.
Paragraph of decision-making bodies and discussion of the new PP, Sémper, which supported Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, in the primary, belonged to that species of political extinction on the new executive of the party: the verse loose. It has been one of the most critical voices with Vox and, in consequence, with the escoramiento flashing the discourse of the popular towards the tone of the party of the extreme right. “I’ve always tried to defend my ideas with respect. You may have firm ideas and respect the opponent. Although today does not seem like it, is the most effective way to defend your own ideas: taking care of the background and the shape”, said Sémper, who has made an appeal to the “free exercise of politics.” “The matches are more useful, more healthy, better for the society if in its bosom harbor nuances and positions that at times it can seem that squeak when they seek to exercise their freedom”.
In the video, a review of the statements most talked about of Sémper. Epv
In recent months, the lack of tuning of the PP basque with the national direction has been evident, especially through the right-hand side of Married and spokesman of the PP in the Congress, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, who accused his fellow basques of “warmth” with the rise of nationalism and has come to ensure that the political moment now is more difficult than when ETA killed. “While some walked by fluffy carpets, other we were risking our lives defending the Constitution”, he replied then Sémper.
Also stirred the basque political to defend a colleague when the PP decided to open disciplinary proceedings to a juntero provincial, Juan Carlos Cano, threatened by ETA, which has voted by mistake in favour of EH Bildu chair a human rights commission. “My party will open a file. I guess to clarify if it is connivente with ETA. To these heights. It is disheartening to dedicate a life to a cause, and that this is the answer”, stated the spokesman of the PP in the basque Parliament.
Your name is now added to the ten charges of the PP of Mariano Rajoy-who have abandoned the policy after the triumph of Married in the primaries of the party, as Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, José Luis Ayllón, Fátima Báñez, Íñigo of the Serna, Cristobal Montoro, among others. Sémper has grateful this Tuesday to be Married to have accepted his decision “with generosity and affection”. The president of the PP has also sent a message on social networks: “Thank you, dear Borja Sémper, for these 25 years of dedication to St. Sebastian, even risking your life to defend freedom against the terrorists. The PP will always be your home and we wish you the best in this new stage for all the family”. The basque political has also spoken with the exvicepresidenta of the Government and the leader of the PP basque, Alfonso Alonso: “We know from the end of the nineties, and as you know, the hard times together more than the good.” Sémper has received messages of affection for representatives of different parties. The socialist Eduardo Madina, a victim of terrorism, has written on his Twitter account: “The policy will be, as from today, a little worse, and your life, quite the best. I wish you all the luck and all the happiness that you deserve”.
