Overview

• Lawmakers are set to vote Thursday on whether to take into consideration two rival bills to safeguard Euskera in public hiring processes.
• EH Bildu proposes requiring Basque knowledge as the general rule for all public posts, while the PNV seeks to let each administration set its own percentage of language-profiled positions.
• The PSE-EE signals it will vote against, so initial progression would depend on mutual abstentions or cross-support between the PNV and EH Bildu.
• The Basque Government’s July opinion opposed EH Bildu’s text and backed the PNV’s proposal, with Socialist councillors abstaining on the latter.
• EH Bildu spokesperson Pello Otxandiano urged the PNV to use a parliamentary majority to answer political, judicial and media offensives, and any final decision would still follow months of processing after this first step.