The Lehendakari undertakes to accelerate the procedures for access to housing in Basque municipalities

The lehendakari Imanol Pradales has promised the Basque municipalities to implement the t during this term of officeaccess procedures to a homeas it is one of the strategic axes of his government program, “to make Euskadi grow in well-being.” This was announced by Pradales, after the meeting held today, Friday, with the Association of Basque MunicipalitiesEudel, in Ajuria Enea.

“We have to have local sensitivity in the development and implementation of our policies,” he stressed after the meeting Esther ApraïzPresident of Eudel and Mayor of Derio, together with Nagore Alkorta And Cristina Labordavice-presidents and respective mayors of Azpeitia and Irun.

“The procedures must be streamlined for the construction of new housing, but also for changes of use, especially by considering public or protected housing,” the Lehendakari stressed, referring to both rental and purchase options. one of the main concerns of society.

The Basque institutions will work together in a coordinated manner to develop A series of measures that Pradales has described. “Activate land already classified as urban, promote a land reserve for public housing, streamline procedures that allow changes in the use of buildings in consolidated urban areas, give legal certainty to the restrictions on tourist housing in certain municipalities, promote the construction of temporary housing specifically aimed at young people, promote changes in the use of disused markets in urban areas or areas with little commercial activity to convert them into housing, create cooperative housing under a regime of transfer of use, and advise residents on housing in obsolete historical centres for their rehabilitation”.

Osakidetza

Pradales believes that “there are agreements” between the political parties to reach “a lowest common denominator” on the situation in Osakidetza, which will allow us to achieve this.a great pact for the health care systemHe has been confident that it is possible to reach “fundamental agreements” on various issues and wants the Basque Public Health Service to be the first of them.

Trust in Barredo

On the other hand, the Lehendakari has its “to trust“in the Minister of Food, Amaia Barredoafter the High Court of Justice of the Basque Country (TSJPV) took over the investigation for her alleged involvement in a case of fraud during her time as Deputy Minister of the Environment. The Lehendakari, in response to questions from journalists, has assured that this judicial procedure does not represent “more of a novelty” than the one resulting from Barredo having acquired the status of registered judge, so the body competent to take up the case in The one that is shown as being under investigation is the TSJPV.

Rejection of the ‘asymmetric’ distribution of minor migrants

Pradales has reiterated his rejection of the “asymmetric” distribution of unaccompanied minor migrants that, as he has said, takes place between autonomous communities. In the same way, he has reported that the Minister of Welfare, Youth and Demographic Challenge of the Basque Government, Nerea Melgosawill speak to the Ministry of the Interior to find out the situation of the young Sahrawi who has been denied asylum, and recalled that “the jurisdiction” of this situation “does not concern the Basque Government at this time.” “We are in permanent contact with Zehar-Errefuxiatuek and UNHCR, but we cannot go much further,” he stressed.

Meetings in Brussels

Finally, he announced his intention to go to Brussels after the summer to maintain contacts with some of the new heads of the European institutions, so that the Basque Country can make its own “voice” heard in a “worrying” context of the rise of extremism and the far right in the European Union”.