Demands the transfer of Social Security to the Basque Country because, although it is not “easy”, it is in the Statute: “It would be complying with the Constitution”
MADRID, 25 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The spokesperson for EH Bildu in Congress, Mertxe Aizpurua, has indicated that her party sees itself as having a “free hand” to negotiate with the Government the General State Budgets (PGE) for 2024, having not placed any conditions on Pedro’s support. Sánchez at his inauguration, and has warned that the duration of the legislature could depend on attention to his demands.
In statements to RNE’s ‘Parliament’ collected by Europa Press, Aizpurua has acknowledged that for “some weeks” he has been talking with the Government on budgetary matters, although he believes that it is still “too early” to offer data or progress on the negotiations.
But he also recalled that, since they did not close any investiture agreement with the PSOE, since their only condition was to prevent PP and Vox from governing, Bildu now has “free hands” to negotiate. “We are the only formation of the forces that make up the investiture bloc that is in that situation,” he pointed out.
For this reason, the Abertzale deputy trusts that Bildu’s imprint will be noted in the Budgets and her training will do “everything possible” so that the public accounts are the reflection of social and territorial measures with “ambition and courage.”
In this way, the idea of ??the independentistas is to reach successive agreements with the coalition Government throughout the legislature, which is already anticipated to be “complex”, through the Budgets and also with other laws. “If the Government wants the legislature to be long, it must attend to the demands of Euskal Herria Bildu,” he added.
Mertxe Aizpurua has also been asked about other issues such as the transfer of Social Security to the Basque Country signed in the investiture agreement between PSOE and PNV. The deputy trusts that the transfer will end up being executed, since it is a signed pact and it is also within the autonomy statute of the Basque Country. “It would be complying with what the Constitution says,” she said about the transfer of Social Security.
Of course, he has acknowledged that a “very long time” has passed without this competence being transferred and he believes that it will not be “easy” or “one of the first transfers” that the Government makes, but he has pointed out that the agreements “are there to be fulfilled.”
On the other hand, Aizpurúa has also spoken out about housing, an issue on which Basque education has always focused attention. The deputy has welcomed the creation of the new Ministry of Housing by the coalition Government, because she considers that “the emphasis is placed” on the issue, but she has warned that housing powers are transferred to the autonomous communities and there “there are usually frictions”.
“As long as powers are safeguarded, and we will be there to ensure that everything is like that, it is fine, because there are pending issues that have to be addressed and the housing problem is terrible,” the spokesperson stressed to underline the importance of taking measures. “of depth” in this matter.
