The EH Bildu coalition will support the PSOE and UN 2023 budgets Podemos, as parliamentary spokesman Mertxe Aizpurua announced on Tuesday. They have agreed with the Government of Spain on a comprehensive 10-point pact that, according to Aizpurua, “has progress that will improve people’s lives.” These are decisions about self-government, health, Euskera, historical memory, the economy, the social sphere and education, some of them below.

Competition in Traffic and Road Safety will be transmitted to Navarre by 31 March. Likewise, the Basque Haciendas will be responsible for the tax management of the extraordinary income of banking and electricity companies.

According to the agreement, in 2023 a total of 1,200 additional medical places will be offered in Family and Community Medicine, which EH Bildu has agreed 200 more than foreseen by the Spanish Government. Two million euros will be allocated to these places of Resident Internal Physicians (MIR), “in order to strengthen the public health system in the face of the current lack of doctors and to favor the necessary generational change”.

Historical memory

2023 budgets will be allocated to three memory spaces. Firstly, EUR 300,000 will be allocated to the excavations of the Aranzadi Society at the site of Irulegi: “It is essential to intensify institutional support for further research on the origin of the Basque Country,” the coalition argued. Secondly, EUR 600,000 will be allocated for the creation of the memory space of Vitoria-Gasteiz in memory of the victims of 3 March. Thirdly, they will allocate three million euros to the Fort de Ezcaba de Pamplona as a memory space, in tribute to the prisoners shot in the flight of 1938.

Euskera and education

In order to “accelerate” the digitisation of Basque radio stations, a million euros will be allocated, which ensure that the broadcasting capacity of Basque radio stations will increase “clearly”. There will be 250,000 euros to promote the circus in Euskera.

For universities, specific projects will be funded. Mondragon Unibertsitatea will receive two million euros, less public universities: The Universities of the Basque Country one and a half million and the Public Universities of Navarra one million.

Measures to be maintained

The measure limiting rents to 2% shall be extended until the end of 2023. As regards pensions, non-contributory pensions will maintain a 15% increase over the next year. They specify that the average increase of EUR 70 per month will benefit 450,000 pensioners each month, “especially women who receive poverty pensions”.