The Basque Government hopes to close today with Madrid “a definitive agreement” on the transfer of the IMV

The Basque Government hopes that this Wednesday it can be closed with the central Executive “a definitive agreement” on the transfer of the Minimum Vital Income (IMV) at the meeting of the technical paper to address its transfer to Euskadi.

Both administrations convened this forum for today in which they will analyze and discuss the technical differences on the transfer with a view to trying to reach a definitive agreement, and will begin to carry out the work and the economic valuation of the transfer.

the lehendakari, Inigo Urkullu, has been “hopeful” with closing the agreement today, in an interview granted to Euskadi Irratia. “If it is not today, it would have to be in a second meeting, at the latest,” he added.

Along the same lines, the spokesman for the Basque Government, Bingen Zupiriasaid yesterday that the regional Executive would maintain the same attitude that it has had since the transfer agreement was approved in 2020 and its compliance date was set for October of that year.

The Minister of Public Governance, Olatz Garamendi, which announced the meeting in the plenary session of the Basque Parliament, already reiterated last week that the Basque Government “is not going to allow any halfway transfer”, after assuring that at this time “the agreement is closer to the characteristics that it has to have this transfer”, although he acknowledged that there are still “aspects to shield”. “We’re on it,” he noted.

Garamendi admitted that “it is taking too long”, he has emphasized that he will maintain a “demanding” attitude so that the IMV reaches Euskadi in full and with financing based on the Quota system.

Precisely, the minister Territorial Policy, Elizabeth Rodriguezassured on January 28, during a visit to Vitoria-Gasteiz, that the jurisdiction over the IMV will be transferred “in its entirety and without temporal limitation” to Euskadi.