Otxandiano calls for the debate on the new status to be put at the centre, as the Gernika Statute is "broken and limited"
The president of EH Bildu believes that the ACV needs new political legal instruments to have more powers and self-government. Conditions, the minimum wage between professionals and the ability to determine decent minimum pensions.
EH Bildu's parliamentary spokesman,Pello Otxandiano , has stressed the importance of the debate on a new political status , considering the current one to be "unfulfilled and limited." "This country needs new democratic, social, economic and national capacities."
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Gernika Statute by reference, and as lehendakari Imanol Pradalesdid K, the leader of the opposition has taken advantage of the anniversary to show that the current Statute has "significant limitations". He has also denounced that "all these years the Spanish State has not complied with the Statute and, furthermore, the reports of the Basque Government itself acknowledge that the current Statute has been strategically exhausted ".
In view of this, EH Bildu's spokesman believes that the ACV needs new political legal instruments to "develop policies adapted to the socio-economic characteristics of the country." Hor has cited as examples the Interprofessional Minimum Wage and the ability to define "decent" minimum pensions . Halaber, Otxandiano has stressed that it is necessary to have new tools to respond to the energy transition, to define a new education policy and to develop a system of its own.
In the spokesman's view, a new political status is not merely a legal instrument for the development of certain public policies. It may be a future pact, a community horizon for Basque society; the possibility of deciding how and for what we want it to be.
In this regard, Otxandiano has stressed the need to define a "shared project for the future, focusing on the well-being of citizens, social cohesion and decision-making capacity".
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