Overview
- The Basque and Spanish governments set December 31 as the cutoff to complete the pending transfers needed to fully implement the 1979 Gernika Statute.
- Lehendakari Imanol Pradales said negotiations “are not advancing as they should” following a meeting between both governments on Tuesday.
- He tied continued support to honoring the pact and warned that trust in Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is “easy to lose” if commitments slip.
- Officials report that around twenty competences remain to be transferred with fewer than 50 days left in the agreed timetable.
- The PNV–PSOE investiture pact defined an unextendable two-year window that has now lapsed, and the Basque Government is granting until year‑end to finish the transfers.