- In the award of school canteens, the Basque Competition Authority fined in 2016 with 18 million euros to eight companies for agreeing the price of the service for ten years. The Committee of Inquiry of the Basque Parliament to determine the political responsibility of the Basque Government in fraud was closed this week after the pp agreed a text with the PNV-PSE. At the last minute, however, pp has decided not to adhere to the text.
The Basque Parliament’s research committee was set up in 2018, driven by pp, Elkarrekin Podemos and EH Bildu. Pp said that it was the "greatest corruption case ever in the Basque Country", but then he agreed with the PNV a text in which he assured that the Basque Government had no political responsibility in this matter (in particular, it was not shown that there was a relationship between companies and the Basque Government).
The text, approved by the three parties, provided for the committee of inquiry to be closed this week, but the pp decided to reverse at the last moment, as he explained Eldiario.es. Larraitz Ugarte (EH Bildu) has proposed to the chairman of the committee that the next meeting be postponed until after the elections because no agreement has been reached. EH Bildu accuses irregularities of a loss of EUR 70 million (and economic damage), while Elkarrekin We can accuse of EUR 80.2 million.