EAJ-PNV
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50/60 · 83%
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Documented proposals
Seasonal rentals
The Basque group proposes seasonal rental regulation while respecting devolved powers. Support concerns preventing fraud; it does not imply support for every housing decree.
Source and assessmentFirst home
EAJ-PNV 9th general assembly policy paper 2 (2025; territorial context). EAJ-PNV’s adopted policy paper proposes broader tax deductions for buying or renting a first main home. This concerns housing policy in the Basque territories and their tax systems, without specifying a national VAT rate.
Source and assessmentWorking week
The Basque group supports processing the 37.5-hour cap and a statutory framework, with transitional measures, SME support and collective bargaining. Its support includes these adaptation conditions.
Source and assessmentPensions
The Basque group supports retaining CPI uprating and warns of silent year-after-year cuts without it. It also calls for stronger pension-system revenues.
Source and assessmentMass legalisation of migrants
Esteban supports regularisation in Hora 25 while seeking closer links to work and stable routes. This qualification is retained.
Source and assessmentPublic healthcare
Basque Health Pact, public/private collaboration section, approved and explicitly endorsed by EAJ-PNV on 27 June 2025 (territorial context). PNV endorses the Basque Health Pact, retaining private collaboration where it adds value, prioritising public capacity and capping contracted expenditure at its existing share. It allows inefficient or strategic services to return to public provision, rather than a general reversal of all contracted provision.
Source and assessmentLow-emission zones
López Torre defends low-emission zones and making non-compliant cities liable for penalties, alongside electricity and transport investment.
Source and assessmentRent prices
Bilbao branch statement supporting implementation of the national statutory rent caps. PNV’s Bilbao branch supports implementing the national law’s rent caps through stressed-market designation. This endorses the existing statutory mechanism without extrapolating its other municipal measures across Spain.
Source and assessmentSuspending evictions
Accepts this extension excluding owners of one or two homes; criticises indefinite moratoria and seeks housing supply and public responsibility.
Source and assessmentIllegal squatting
Esteban Bravo, Aitor votes for separately voted amendment 539, adding unlawful entry into a home and usurpation to fast criminal proceedings. This concerns the specific criminal route, not unpaid rent or every civil recovery procedure.
Source and assessmentBuilding new homes
Vaquero supports the planning reform negotiated with PSOE, not unrestricted deregulation.
Source and assessmentAutomatic lease renewal
Vaquero rejects the second decree’s automatic-renewal scheme, criticising the compensation required to recover housing and the exceptions. She remains open to negotiating a different reform.
Source and assessmentHousing purchases by investment funds
Vaquero endorses measures against speculation and penalties on bulk purchases by foreign funds, requiring proportionate limits on duration and territory. She distinguishes that support from opposition to a blanket ban on all companies.
Source and assessmentDeporting convicted foreign offenders
Insausti calls for legal changes so persistent repeat offenders face prison or removal, seeking involvement from parties in Congress. This is a PNV mayor’s request for national legislative reform, rather than a claim that his council can order removals.
Source and assessmentSeeking asylum at the border
2023 general-election manifesto (historical reference). Demands compliance with humanitarian and asylum obligations and proposes traceable procedures to ensure border returns respect those safeguards.
Source and assessmentSharing responsibility for migrant children
Supports regions sharing reception and care while individual cases are resolved; this is not automatic permanent residence or collective return.
Source and assessmentRepeated petty theft
Supports stronger criminal penalties for repeated theft, alongside court resources and proportionality. Supports the original text while rejecting the Senate amendments; these are distinct decisions.
Source and assessmentSpecial courts for politicians
2023 general-election manifesto (historical reference). Proposes abolishing special jurisdiction for public office holders and public servants.
Source and assessmentLobbyists: who influences government
Legarda supports transparency, traceability and independent oversight of lobbying. He objects to the decree’s complexity and procedure, rather than the basic public register required by the EU.
Source and assessmentProtecting people who report corruption
Legarda supports the protection authority with more effective parliamentary oversight. This is a 2023 debate about a specific institution.
Source and assessmentAmnesty for the Catalan independence process
Supports adopting the 2024 amnesty to address the Catalan political conflict.
Source and assessmentIndependence referendums
The Basque Group’s constitutional amendment registered on 11 March 2026 proposes recognising Basque citizens’ right to decide freely and democratically, through an exercise agreed with the state. Its justification invokes self-determination; this is a proposal, not an enacted reform.
Source and assessmentCatalonia collecting its own taxes
Etxano supports the PSOE–ERC specific financing agreement and its legislative implementation, protecting the Basque and Navarre fiscal systems from possible adverse effects.
Source and assessmentBasque self-government
2023 general-election manifesto (historical reference). Supports completing Statute of Gernika transfers; this is distinct from deciding independence.
Source and assessmentCatalan and other languages in school
Agirretxea defends regions deciding their own language-of-education models without Madrid imposing them. His Basque model retains both official languages as teaching languages, with particular attention to Basque.
Source and assessmentTaxes on large fortunes
PNV–PSE fiscal agreement of 31 January 2023 (historical reference). PNV and PSE reaffirm implementing the large-fortunes solidarity tax through adaptation to foral territories, bilateral agreement and changes to the Economic Agreement Act in Congress. This documents support for the national tax while respecting the foral tax system in 2023.
Source and assessmentAbortion access
Organic Law 1/2023, articles 13 and 19: legislative evidence from 2023. Votes for the 2023 abortion reform, including public provision and decisions at 16 and 17 without parental consent. Evidence from the final law vote rather than a procedural vote.
Source and assessmentTrans law: changing legal sex
Supports the bill allowing legal gender changes from age 16 without medical reports or hormone treatment. Legislative evidence from 2022, enacted as Law 4/2023.
Source and assessmentEuthanasia
Supports lawful assistance in dying with medical safeguards and personal choice, seeking to avoid unnecessary court delays.
Source and assessmentExtending nuclear plant lifetimes
Sagastizabal supports the agreed phased shutdown and renewable replacement, criticising public costs of extensions and demanding support for affected workers.
Source and assessmentDefence: 2% of GDP
Vaquero accepts the need for the 2% plan, requiring detailed funding, European coordination and no cuts to social provision.
Source and assessmentArms embargo on Israel
Supports the arms embargo and seeks to close exceptions or improve controls; this does not establish an implemented embargo without exceptions.
Source and assessmentSelf-employed people and small businesses
2023 general-election manifesto (historical reference). Proposes simpler administrative procedures for self-employed people and small businesses.
Source and assessmentMinimum income
2023 general-election manifesto (historical reference). Supports minimum-income benefits and regional management to improve protection for low-income households.
Source and assessmentFree nursery places
2024 Basque election manifesto (territorial and historical evidence). Proposes free early-childhood education places up to age three.
Source and assessmentSupport for people needing daily care
2024 Basque election manifesto (territorial and historical evidence). Supports public help for people who need daily care and their families.
Source and assessmentMental health
2024 Basque election manifesto (territorial and historical evidence). Proposes stronger mental-health support through public services.
Source and assessmentStudent grants
2024 Basque election manifesto (territorial and historical evidence). Supports grants and financial help so that low income does not prevent further study.
Source and assessmentScience and research
2024 Basque election manifesto (territorial and historical evidence). Supports public funding for science and research.
Source and assessmentViolence against women
2023 general-election manifesto (historical reference). Supports specific measures and protection against gender-based violence towards women.
Source and assessmentOnline privacy
Proposes secure data-sharing spaces and cooperation with BAIC to protect rights and privacy in artificial-intelligence development.
Source and assessmentEnergy and global warming
2023 general-election manifesto (historical reference). Supports reducing emissions and moving towards clean energy to address climate change.
Source and assessmentFood and farming
2024 Basque election manifesto (territorial and historical evidence). Supports public aid and funding to sustain local agricultural production.
Source and assessmentPublic transport fares
2024 Basque election manifesto (territorial and historical evidence). Proposes progressive usage discounts and integrated public transport fares.
Source and assessmentEuropean Union decisions
2023 general-election manifesto (historical reference). Supports deeper European integration and shared decisions through common institutions.
Source and assessmentAid to other countries
2023 general-election manifesto (historical reference). Supports public funding for development cooperation to fight poverty and inequality.
Source and assessmentCulture and heritage
2024 Basque election manifesto (territorial and historical evidence). Supports public backing for culture and preserving and sharing heritage.
Source and assessmentWater and drought
2024 Basque election manifesto (territorial and historical evidence). Proposes investment and water-saving, efficiency or reuse measures to address scarcity and drought.
Source and assessmentIncome tax: low and middle incomes
Gipuzkoa tax proposal (territorial context). Supports tax relief for low and middle incomes in Gipuzkoa, with housing, care and work–family incentives.
Source and assessmentIncome tax and inflation
Congress speech, 22 April 2026. Calls inflation adjustment reasonable and says it applies it in Euskadi. Abstained in the separate vote: support is established by its speech, rather than inferred from abstention.
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