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Bengoetxea has announced a significant increase in the housing and security budget

The First Vice-President and Counsellor for Culture and Language Policy has stressed that the budgets to be approved on Tuesday will be "linked to people's priorities."

Ibone Bengoetxea lehenengo lehendakariordea eta Kultura eta Hizkuntza Politikako sailburua
Bengoetxea, on Radio Euskadi. Photo: EITB

First Vice-President and Counsellor for Culture and Language Policy, Ibone Bengoetxea, has announced a significant increase in the 2026 budget in the Housing Department as one of the "biggest concerns" of the public and in Security.

In an interview on Radio Euskadi, he stressed that the budgets that the Governing Council will approve next Tuesday will be "linked to people's priorities. " 

Thus, he has assured that Housing will be "one of the budgets that will grow the most" and that "investmentin Security will increase as well. "

They are also committed to Health and Education in their budgets, and "there will be productive investments to support businesses and industry."

With regard to the approval of these accounts, the representative of the Basque Government has said that they would like to approve the budgets' with more votes than those of the parties that supportthe government ', and on EH Bildu's offer to negotiate the budgets, he has said that' they will listen, discuss and try to agree '.

On theBasque E, he has advocated getting out of the 'conflict zone' and associating it with 'positive emotions' and has said that he does not give in to defending the use of the Basque language in the European institutions.

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On the other hand, the Vice-President has expressed her respect forthe investigation opened by the National High Court against the President of Sidenor, José Antonio Jainaga,and has ensured that the operation being carried out by this company and the Basque Government to enter Talgo continues.

"We are a responsible government and we are not moving according to the headlines or the information we have no more data on," he said.



The Vice-President added that they respect the investigation being carried out by the National High Court and that the Government will wait for "confirmed data" to make "assessments" on this matter.

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