It is not a question of banning “legitimate professional leaps” from the public to the private and vice versa, the political coalition explained, but of regulating and limiting these movements so that “political power is not subject to economic power and clientelism”. Mrs Bildu has defended democratic hygiene and political responsibility, and has defended the need to ensure coexistence.

The Ethics Committee, which is currently under the Basque Government, has been replaced by an independent body of officials (the Independent Body of Good Government), with the aim of detecting conflicts of interest and avoiding revolving doors. Moreover, the proposal for a law not only affects public offices, as it has been up to now, but also companies that want to hire these positions.

The proposal, which consists of 28 articles, includes, inter alia, that the public office must wait at least two years after its cessation in order to be able to join the board of directors of a company.