Interview with Aitor Esteban, spokesman for the PNV in Congress, on Radio Euskadi

The new housing law, which ERC and EH Bildu have agreed with the Spanish government, constitutes an infringement of the powers of the Basque government, according to what the PNV spokesman in the Congress of Deputies said on Monday. “It’s an invasive law,” he noted.

In an interview given to Radio Euskadi’s “Boulevard” program, Aitor Esteban He has stressed that while the PNV did not support the Basque housing law in 2015, “it is our law and I will defend it against all odds”.

Esteban has criticized EH Bildu for lack of coherence in supporting an “invasive” standard with Basque leagues. He has also blamed Pedro Sánchez’s executive for the fact that his group has not yet received the text when the presentation on the issue is held tomorrow.

He has said he has “a lot of doubts” that it will “work” and opined that in the end it is “more than a breakthrough a fiasco”. For example, you think you can take in more rent than you can attract.

Asked about the memory web page controversy, has assured that it is an “error” that needs to be “corrected” so as not to “confuse victims and perpetrators”. He explained that “a correction is needed, a rewording” which he said “Aranzadi is going to do immediately”.

Aitor Esteban has explained that his PNV rejects the PSOE reform proposal on the law of “only yes is yes” and denies that this represents a return to the previous Criminal Code. Likewise, it has stressed that “the main responsibility” for everything that happened with the sentence reductions lies with “the ministries that promoted it and that of Justice, as the overseer.”