EH Bildu has reiterated its commitment to “work with ambition” to implement “our own SMI” for the Basque citizenry, “adapted to the cost of living in Euskal Herria,” with the goal of “guaranteeing decent wages and easing the economy of Basque families.”
The head-of-list candidates for Vizcaya for the Congress and the Senate, Oskar Matute and Idurre Bideguren, moved this Friday to the Mercabilbao facilities in Basauri (Bizkaia), where they denounced “the escalation of prices and its consequences for the economy of Basque families.” In order to “ease the impact of the rise in the cost of living,” they detailed the initiatives that the sovereignist coalition will take to the Cortes Generales after the elections of November 29.
The person who will be the next EH Bildu spokesperson in Congress has stressed that “everything is going up except wages.” In this context, he has defended the need to “rebalance the scales in favor of workers and families, by increasing wages and improving working conditions.”
Likewise, he has demanded that “the big companies in the energy and food sector, those that each quarter announce their thousands of millions in profits,” assume the increase in costs “with those huge profit margins, so that the effort stops being borne only by families, so that it is no longer the consumers who end up paying these abusive prices.”
In this regard, he has insisted that “on November 29 we have a lot at stake, too, in making it possible to have decent wages and affordable lives so that all of us can live decently.”
The impact of the rise in the cost of living
For her part, the candidate for the Senate for Vizcaya has stated that “citizens are bearing an ever greater increase in prices, in the grocery basket, in electricity and gas bills, or in fuel. In her view, this is “an increase that puts many families in tight straits, who see that getting to the end of the month is becoming increasingly difficult.”
Given this situation, she has reiterated that “in EH Bildu we are very aware of this. That is why we commit ourselves to working with ambition and responsibility to meet it, starting by establishing our own SMI and adapted to our cost of living that will allow ensuring a decent life for all of us,” Idurre Bideguren concluded.