The PNV considers that "the process of updating self-government must be aimed at the institutionalization of the right to decide from the Basque people, giving it to the free and democratically expressed will expressed by Basque citizenship." This is included in the document "Diagnosis of the moment to build the future of Euskadi" that the PNV has presented at its VIII General Assembly, which celebrates this weekend in Barakaldo (Vizcaya).
President of the PNV of Vizcaya, Itxaso Atutxa, has presented the diagnosis "of the current Euskadi and the postcovid" who has performed the Executive of the Party (EBB) together "experts" external to the PNV and that will serve as a basis for the " Listen active "that the party will carry out.
Atutxa has highlighted that "a historical moment" is lived by "the uncertainty and the constant transformation" and that the PNV intends, from that diagnosis and "listening to the Basque Society", to elaborate an "Agenda" that collects the " Answers to the main challenges. "
The diagnosis advocates "undertake the creation of a historical account of the Basque, which represents a national understanding of its own cultural heritage and offers a certain idea of nation," and considers the Basque element "to promote and expand for the survival of the Basque identity ".
The PNV collects that "the process of updating self-government must be aimed at the institutionalization of the right to decide from the Basque people, giving it to the free and democratically expressed will expressed by Basque citizenship."
"Since the recognition of its identity and national character, the Basque people are the owner of the right to decide and the regulation of his exercise. It is a democratic right that must be recognized and its exercise, regulated and agreed," says the diagnosis made by the executive.
Atutxa has pointed out that the right to decide "will be another topics" that the PNV will have to "talk and listen" with citizenship, but has remembered that "there is a scope, which is the parliamentarian", in which both the PNV Like the rest of the matches "they will have to continue making their contributions."
The document notes that the PNV "understands that the full realization of the historical rights of the Basque people as an institutional manifestation of its self-government is updated and materialized through the free and democratically expressed will expressed by Basque citizenship."
It considers the Basque Country "an open and plural national reality" whose institutionalization "must be based on the respect and recognition of the different feelings of belonging and the objective is to guarantee the equal terms of the different identity adscriptions."
The document also refers to a series of "priority challenges" such as sustainability, equality between men and women, the demographic challenge, maintenance and strengthening of social services, the continuous improvement of the health system, education or creation of employment and support for economic activity.
The PNV intends to work with the document with the Basque Society throughout the process of listening that will be launched behind the Assembly so that citizens can make their contributions and thus achieve "improve it".
Date Of Update: 27 November 2021, 08:53
