Friday, February 27, 2009

Elections to the CAV

Next Sunday, March 1st there will be elections to the Basque Parliament. This is the first time I will be able to vote, since I am now 18 years old.


As always, every single political party is running a huge publicity campaign. Again, as always, each political party makes (too) bold statements and promises to look good, which are later probably hard to keep up with.


The most siginifant parties are probablyPSE-EE (Partido Socialista de Euskadi), PNV (Partido Nacionalista Vasco), and PP (Partido Popular).


The leader of PSE is Patxi López. The party's political program suggests rebuilding the Basque Country through dialogue, the strengthening of local institutions, open-mindedness, and innovation, improving health care and education, and providing the means to stop the economic recession.



The leader of PNV is Juan José Ibarretxe, and the party's political program includes dialogue to end the conflict with ETA, the strengthening of local identity and self-government, bilinguism (spanish and euskera), and economic measures to end the crisis.


The PP, whose leader is Antonio Basagoiti, proposes new means to end terrorism and abolish political parties related to ETA, rebuilding the economy, guaranteeing freedom of choice concerning the language in which children are educated, and improving the Law of Historical Territories.




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