Imanol Pradales

The lehendakari has been optimistic about the agreement, but has warned that the economic consequences of the conflict persist because "every day of the conflict directly affects the economy of the Basque Country and the pockets of the citizens".

The lehendakari has been optimistic about the agreement, but has warned that the economic consequences of the conflict persist and that "every day of the conflict directly affects the economy of the Basque Country and the pockets of the citizens".

The lehendakari has advocated political stability and cooperation to move the Basque Country forward: it has called for the closure of outstanding transfers before July and has warned that alleged cases of corruption cannot be an excuse to stop governing.

The commemorative agenda, which begins earlier this month, includes more than forty initiatives to recall the legacy of the lehendakari Agirre and his team and to project into the future the values of democracy, freedom and social justice that underpinned his creation.

Pradales has defended the Basque Police at the annual ceremony of medals and congratulations on police merit and has stressed that our society will never accept the instrumentalization of the Ertzaintza.

According to Imanol Pradales, the PP proposal includes Vox in the equation and makes it impossible for the PNV to support it. 

Together with the presidents of the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Xunta de Galicia, the lehendakari participated today in a colloquium in Barcelona in which he warned that Vox wants to eradicate the state of autonomy, 

The president, Imanol Pradales, has participated in a day organized by the forum Cercle d'Economia, together with the presidents of Catalonia and Galicia, Salvador Illa and Alfonso Rueda, respectively, who have talked not only about models of autonomous financing, but also about the political situation in Spain and the possible electoral advance.

The President, Imanol Pradales, chaired this afternoon's meeting of the Advisory Council of the Basque Country, together with the Vice-President and Language and Policy Adviser, Ibone Bengoetxea first, who stressed that "the future of the Basque Country requires social cohesion, new alliances and broad consensus".

The lehendakari, Imanol Pradales, has announced that the parties that make up the Basque Government, PNV and PSE-EE, will presentin the coming weeks a proposal for a law on urgent measures to facilitate and alleviate sustainable economic activity. He has recalled that at the last plenary session of the General Policy he committed himself to preparing a quick way to facilitatetheimplementation of strategic investment projects in the Basque Country.

The President, Imanol Pradales, has greeted Pope Leon XIV at the general hearing of the Vatican and then met for almost an hour with Secretary of State Pietro Parolin. "It has been a meeting of great symbolic and institutional value that makes it possible to strengthen the relationship between the Basque Country and the Holy See," he said.

The Basque Government has highlighted the symbolic value of the gifts, which claim historical memory, the defence of peace and the protection of cultural and linguistic diversity. 

The President, Imanol Pradales, will attend the general hearing, invited by Pope Leon XIV. Eusko Jaurlaritza, a valuable meeting that will strengthen the institutional presence of the Basque Country in the international arena.

The spokeswoman for the Basque Government, Maria Ubarretxena, explained at the hearing following the Governing Council that the lehendakari, Imanol Pradales, will meet Pope Leon XIV at the Vatican on Wednesday, where he will defend the Basque Country's commitment to "peace, democracy, human dignity and social justice".

The President says that international law and liberal democracies are threatened by the rise of global populism and authoritarianism. He claims that the Basque Country has its own voice in a federal Europe.

The Lehendakari has highlighted its contribution to the institutional declaration, the development of the Gernika Statute and the strengthening of the Basque institutions.