According to Aitor Esteban, the agreement reached “maintains the three main objectives, namely to protect and defend self-government, to preserve the autonomy of the EITB and to guarantee the presence of Basque in the new audiovisual framework”.
Euskaraz irakurri: EAJk akordioa lortu du Espainiako Gobernuarekin Ikus-entzunezkoen legearen inguruan
The PNV has a Agree with the Spanish government on the audiovisual law that “save the three great objectives of protecting and defending self-government, preserving the autonomy of the EITB and guaranteeing the presence of Basque in the new audiovisual framework”, as announced by the Jeltzale spokesperson in Congress, Aitor Esteban.
At a press conference in Bilbao, the PNV spokesperson, along with fellow deputy Joseba Agirretxea, explained that although it is not “the ideal law” for the Basque education, a “satisfactory” agreement has been reached that has managed to “give it back ” to the main risks” that, in his opinion, existed in the project of the Executive of Pedro Sánchez.
Deputy Joseba Agirretxea explained that the main changes are the inclusion of a explicit mention of the competence of the Basque government in the Basque audiovisual field, regional and non-governmental control of broadcasts in two communities (as is the case with the EITB in Euskadi and Navarra) and that the governance of the EITB is maintained.
The control by the Basque authorities of EITB . internet broadcastswhen the project proposed that all broadcasts that were not on DTT would be statewide, guaranteeing that each of the three co-official languages will have at least 10% of the broadcasts TVE is required to do in Basque, Galician or Catalan ( avoiding the risk that this slot would only be in Catalan as this is the one with the most audience) and the Dubbing in Basque of the content of TVE’s children’s channels are other aspects emphasized by the deputy.
“We have achieved more than we thought at the beginning,” says Agirretxea, who also mentioned the agreement with international streaming platforms, which are not covered by this law, so that they voluntarily include content in Basque.
Aitor Esteban has criticized the government’s habit of PSOE and United We Can of bills “suddenly, without asking” to their parliamentary partners, “who are the ones voting”.
“It would have been simpler and simpler and we wouldn’t have had to table an amendment to the whole thing with an alternative text,” he said, though acknowledging that later the Ministry of Economy and Digital Transformation “understood it had to come to an agreement.”
The PNV spokesman has accused the government of acting as if it “perhaps” had a parliamentary majority and “started projects” to seek majorities later, “and some will do it with the People’s Party,” he predicted.
“We are going week after week, in fits and starts, with anger and solutions,” Esteban summed up the lawmaker before warning that the government now also has a “clear detachment” with ERC for political espionage and “if it doesn’t resolve it, the parliamentary majorities will be very difficult.
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