The Basque government, after securing the transfer of five powers to the Basque Country at the last minute two weeks ago (including Maritime Rescue and non-contributory family benefits), is now focusing, once and for all, on completing the implementation of the Statute of Autonomy. According to the Basque Statute, fifteen areas remain to be addressed. Of these, perhaps the most important, due to their significant economic and infrastructural implications, are the management of pension payments and the transfer of airports. The payment of contributory pensions would be the final step in the economic management of Social Security, a concept on which the central government has yet to take a position, following the transfer of the management of unemployment benefits and subsidies two weeks ago. This latter matter already met with strong reservations from senior technical experts in Madrid, but not from the political side, as they perceived a serious risk of disrupting the unitary model and the single fund of the Social Security system. In fact, the transfer agreement clearly establishes this as the red line. The "technical" aspects of pension payment management will reignite the debate.

Antxon Alonso Egurrola is a businessman from Elgoibar who met Santos Cerdán almost twenty years ago in Milagro (Navarra), where the former secretary of organization of the PSOE was a councilor. Their first shared business did not work out, but the friendship and collaboration between the two was just beginning. A few years later, Santos and the Gipuzkoa, that is, the Guipuzcoan, meet again. If the UCO report is to be believed, the man currently imprisoned in Soto del Real joined two political powerhouses: María Chivite and Pedro Sánchez. At the same time, Antxon allegedly built up both of their businesses. Later, according to the police report, Koldo García, the traitor who recorded everything, would join them.

Aitor Esteban (Bilbao, 1962) has been involved in politics all his life, always in the PNV. He has a doctorate in law from the University of Deusto and since 1991, when he joined the Provincial Council of Vizcaya as secretary general of the Presidency and spokesman, he has not stopped. He learned from one of the best, Xabier Arzalluz, and in his shadow a group of young people, among whom were Iñigo Urkullu and Andoni Ortuzar, formed a group that became known as the Jobubis (Young Burukides Vizcaínos) who little by little won battles until they managed to control the party. On Wednesday, in his last control session in Congress, he said goodbye to a standing ovation from a good part of the deputies.