What is new is that Housing will have its own department, and Transport will also have its own portfolio. Another area that is segregated is the department that Melgosa led. For example, there will be Social Affairs on one side and Justice on the other.
The next Basque government will have fifteen departments, in addition to the Lehendakaritza, as the EITB has been able to confirm. There are four more portfolios than the previous Executive. Ten of these departments will be managed by the PNV, and the other five by the PSE-EE.
The decision to expand executive power, sources familiar with the negotiations say, is due to the need to work and focus on government.more specializedwhich responds more specifically to the needs of citizens, who demand careful public services.” It is therefore about “addressing each problem in a more personal way and in this way responding to the demands placed on the government.” The greater the demand, the greater the government“add the same sources.
This Saturday the structure of the new Executive will be announced in its entirety, but they have already put forward much of that structure, with Health, education, culture, language policy and finance They will continue to be managed as their own department.
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One of the novelties is that this is confirmed residence will have its own department “to meet the needs, especially of the youth”, and Transport You also have your own portfolio.
Another breakaway area is the department led by Nerea Melgosa. On the one hand that will be the case Social Affairs and on the other side Justicewhere it will be integrated Penitentiary policy. That is also confirmed Agriculture and Fisheries It will be its own department.
In addition, Science and innovation “will carry significant weight” in the new Executive. Finally, it is believed that Promotion and environment They will continue to share the portfolio.
Just a precedent
There is only one precedent of a fifteen-member government. It was in the first part of the 1991 and 1995 legislature, with José Antonio Ardanza as lehendakari. It was a coalition of PNV, EA (Eusko Alkartasuna) and EE (Euskadiko Ezkerra). It so happens that Parliament currently physically has only fourteen seats on the government bench.
Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu made his debut with a very small team of only eight advisors “as a sign of budget cuts”. Later he had eleven in the second and third terms, the same eight from the PNV and three from the PSE-EE. The Socialists had six or seven portfolios during the time of José Antonio Ardanza, when they also participated in coalitions.
Source: EITB
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