The Committee on Petitions of the Parliament of Navarra will ask all parliamentary groups to invite Sortzen and the parents' platform Download Ratios 0-18 to a working table to explain their demands. The European Commission will call for account to be taken of the significant cut in ratios recommended to the foral government in order to implement a new law.

Parents say the problem is “serious.” For example, the European Commission's Child Care Network recommends a maximum of 20 students per teacher in Primary Education, but in Navarra it is common to find classrooms of 25 students in this cycle. Following the teachers’ strike convened on 29 October last, the Department of Education has proposed a ceiling for 23 students per classroom. Thus, “How will the teachers carry out their work?” asks Ratios in a letter sent by the Platform Deskarga to the Ombudsman of Navarra.

In education from 0 to 3 years is added to the problem of ratio another: this cycle is not universal and there is a waiting list. In addition, in this case they also denounce the instability of working conditions and, therefore, of the conditions of care, as they consider it impossible to know “who will manage the school, the Government of Navarra, the city council or some company subcontracted by them”.

For all these reasons, the association of parents of the Basque public school sortzen and the platform Ratios Downloadable 0-18 have used the tool of the People's Legislative Initiative that allows the direct dialogue of parliamentarians. That is why they have had to make their request compulsory in Parliament, without the need for a specific party to make it.

If there were no surprises and the parties would keep the word given today, fathers and mothers would have no trouble exposing their claims in an Education Committee face-to-face. “We see it right for citizens to make a petition to Parliament and we find it interesting that, in addition to trade unions and experts, they can listen to parents,” said Eneka Maiz of EH Bildu. PSN, Geroa Bai, PP, Arturo-Tú and Vox have also agreed in the Committee on Petitions. UPN did not attend the concentration, which took place in Plaza Nueva. It is now up to the parliamentary groups to call on the mother and father platforms for the Education Committee to make their appearance.

Objective of the foral law of ratios

Since its inception and since the Low of Ratios, they do not want to depend on the political will of politicians such as the Minister of Education, Carlos Gimeno. On January 22, 2024, Gimeno stated in the SER that raising the salaries of teachers who have lost 20% since 2010, reducing school hours an hour a week and reducing the ratio of students in all cycles is "an unbearable expense of many millions of euros".

“We will demand a foral law of ratios, whatever the Government of Navarra, that respects the rules,” said Laura Pérez, a member of the parents’ platform Download Ratios. “We see politicians constantly negotiating with the trade unions, but we want a definitive guarantee,” he stressed.