The parliamentary spokesperson for the PNV, Joseba Díez Antxustegi, stated this Friday that he is "happy" with the agreement reached with EH Bildu to move forward with the reform of the Basque Public Employment Law in Parliament. The objective of the regulatory change is to strengthen the legal certainty of the linguistic requirements set in the Public Employment Offers (OPEs), something that, as he emphasized, shows that Basque is "a central issue" for his party.
In an interview on Euskadi Irratia, reported by Europa Press, Díez Antxustegi highlighted that, in the decade the PNV has been governing in coalition with the PSE-EE, this has been "the first time we have presented a bill in Parliament on our own, without our partner the PSE, and it has been on this issue, which demonstrates the importance of Basque and why it is a central issue for us."
"We are happy because we have reached an agreement. For us, it is a central issue, for the PNV it is a very important matter to protect and guarantee Basque in the administration. Reaching an agreement beyond the government coalition is not easy, but when you are clear about what you want to achieve, what you want to give importance to, and everyone knows that if there is a central issue for the PNV it is Basque, it has been simple to know what our objective was and to reach an agreement," he stated.
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