Josean Izarra Vitoria

Victoria

Updated Friday, March 15, 2024-17:35

The PSE-EE proclaims that "only Basque is the native language" of the Basques, the argument used by nationalist parties to eliminate the educational offer in Spanish and to impose a requirement for Basque accreditation to access Basque administrations.

To redefine the requirement for Basque in the administration, Andueza's party intends to have the "relationship language" of each citizen recorded in the administration's databases in order to know "exactly the effective linguistic demand for each service."

Since 2016, the PSE-EE has endorsed the regulations promoted by the PNV in the Basque Government to increase the presence of Basque in both Education and administration, the two levers of the so-called "linguistic normalization".

8 years ago, in the 2016 electoral campaign with Idoia Mendia as the socialist candidate for lehendakari, the PSE-EE considered that it was "time to guarantee that freedom and equality go hand in hand in our language policies."

An approach that denounced the systematic use of the Basque language requirement to access any position in the administration.

An electoral video of the Basque socialists showed a citizen rejected in all social spheres for not knowing Basque and Mendia warned that this situation only occurred in the Basque administration.

However, in the electoral program presented today by the candidate Eneko Andueza the PSE-EE not only shares with the PNV that only Basque is the "own language" but also validates the latest decree approved by the Government of Urkullu in which establishes the objective that Basque be the working language of officials and workers of all administrations and public companies in Euskadi.

The socialists now defend the need to "advance in a better measurement of the linguistic perspective in the demand for different services", an attribution that the approved decree transfers to each institution or public company based on a unique generic formula in which estimates the number of Basque speakers and 'quasieuskaldunes' in each geographical area.

The PSE-EE confirms that "Basques have the great fortune of having had two languages ​​for more than a thousand years" but only attributes to Basque the status of being the "fundamental pillar of the Basque cultural legacy."

The socialists' proposals to increase the knowledge and use of Basque include free teaching in Euskaltegis, public aid for the liberalization of public employees who study it, and support for companies that encourage its learning among their employees. .

They also include as an electoral proposal that the only Basque television channel in Spanish (the most watched with 8.3% share compared to 2% in Basque) incorporate subtitles in Basque.

They also assume as their own strategies for the implementation of Basque used by the PNV and Bildu in the institutions they control.

"We will continue working so that leisure and sports can be spaces for the expansion of Basque. To do this we will have the collaboration of Provincial Councils, City Councils and sports federations," includes the socialist electoral program for the April 21 elections.

The Basque socialists have defended during the last legislature that they have prevented the Education Law from being one of the axes of the "nationalist construction" by including in their Explanation of Motives that the linguistic models are still in force.

An alleged freedom of choice that contrasts with the impossibility of choosing educational centers that teach subjects in Spanish with Basque as a subject.

The new norm approved with the votes of PNV and PSE-EE establishes that all Basque students must accredit a B-2 profile of Basque and Spanish upon completing their compulsory studies and leaves it in the hands of each educational center how to achieve this.

According to the Sociometer made public today by the Basque Government, the Basque language occupies 13th place in the ranking of concerns of Basques.

The economic situation and the labor market, housing, the maintenance of public services, the environment and climate change and the integration of immigrants are ranked as the five main challenges of the next decade.