The spokesperson for the Popular Party in the General Assemblies, Mikel Lezama, has presented an interpellation addressed to the general deputy, Eider Mendoza, in order to detail the reasons why Gipuzkoa "is now behind Bizkaia" in fiscal matters. This initiative comes after the Provincial Council made public that it is analyzing new measures to attract talent, promote business rootedness, and strengthen economic competitiveness "after having rejected proposals during the 2025 fiscal reform that pursued these same objectives".
In a statement, Lezama pointed out that "the core issue is not that the provincial government rectifies," but that Gipuzkoa "once again falls behind Bizkaia on strategic issues for the economic future of the territory." In his opinion, "the worrying thing is that it needs Bizkaia to take the first step to recognize challenges that were already identified during the debate on fiscal reform."
The popular representative emphasized that, during the processing of the fiscal reform, his group defended initiatives to facilitate access to housing, promote the arrival and permanence of qualified professionals, consolidate business rootedness, protect family businesses, foster entrepreneurship, and prevent Gipuzkoa from "losing competitiveness against other territories."
However, he insisted that a large part of those proposals "were rejected while the Government argued that the approved reform adequately responded to the main economic, social, and demographic challenges of the territory." Now, as he recalled, "the Provincial Council itself recognizes the need to promote new fiscal measures" and asks "if the approved reform was sufficient to respond to Gipuzkoa's challenges, what has changed in just one year for it to be necessary to approve new measures aimed precisely at those same objectives?".
Lezama expressed his displeasure because many of the PP's initiatives "were caricatured and discarded under arguments related to fiscal harmonization or the supposed lack of realism of the approaches defended by the Popular Party." In this regard, he stressed that "today we see that problems such as talent attraction, business rootedness, or competitiveness were not PP's whims. They were real challenges that were already on the table and that the Provincial Council itself now recognizes by announcing new measures."
Through the registered interpellation, the PP intends for Mendoza to detail the content of the measures that the Provincial Council is preparing, the planned timeline for their processing, and the reasons why they were not included in the fiscal reform approved in 2025. Furthermore, it demands that the general deputy clarify what fiscal strategy Gipuzkoa intends to follow in the coming years and how the Provincial Government assesses the differences between the proposals rejected during the fiscal reform and the initiatives now announced after the steps taken by Bizkaia.