The Basque wing of Podemos has proposed a €150 million plan to create jobs in the Basque provinces of Vizcaya, Guipúzcoa and Álava.
The spokesperson for Podemos, Lander Martinez also demanded that the historic shipyard, El Naval, be saved.
Other proposals included a €6 million fund to bring empty apartments back onto the rental market along with a further clampdown on renting to tourists in ‘saturated areas’.
It also calls for a withdrawal of subsidies to large companies, a reform of the RGI and action on gender equality.
In the discussion, Martinez admitted there was little likelihood that the right-of-centre PNV would adopt this version of a budget.
For outsiders, it is clear that the pro-independence Basque EH Bildu and the new Spanish/Basque left of Podemos have similar programmes, both agreeing on saving the skilled jobs of the shipyard and reducing sky high rents for example.
What is less clear is why Podemos and Bildu cannot cooperate closely on these economic issues where they have 29 members in a 75 seat Parliament. ………..?
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