Bakartxo Tejeria, a member of the Basque National party, will once again preside over the Basque Parliament. At the inaugural session of this eleventh legislature, the EAJ-PNV candidate has been re-elected president after polling 37 votes out of the 75 that make up the Basque chamber. Besides the support of her party‘s 28 MPs, Tejeria has received the backing of the socialist parliamentary group.
21OctoberThe parliament’s new bureau also has another EAJ-PNV member, Iñigo Iturrate, who was the bureau’s assistant secretary in the last legislature, and will now be the secretary of this governing body. Following the agreement reached between the different parliamentary groups, EH Bildu and the Socialist Party will hold the offices of vice-presidents, and Elkarrekin Podemos one of the secretariats.
In her inaugural speech, the new president has set out her priorities for these next four years. Challenges, she has stated, that will involve kick-starting the economy and social welfare, reinforcing peaceful coexistence, and the need to advance toward a new status for Euskadi-The Basque Country. “These are the challenges and the opportunities we face. And in order to address them, we will need agreements, advocacy and dialogue. Advocacy as an instrument at the service of the public at large in order to reach consensuses that respond to the needs of our voters. I shall therefore continue to seek agreement through a respectful dialogue in which no one is excluded”.
