Gregorio Ordonez was shot dead in the neck at the hands of an ETA gunman, 'Txapote', when he ate inside the bar the Cepa de San Sebastián on January 23, 1995. This Thursday marks 25 years of the murder of the Councilor of the PP with which ETA initiated a macabre trail of murders to politicians and public offices in what he called "socializing suffering."

Gregorio Ordonez was only 37 years old when ETA skewed his life. Perhaps that is why, the title of the exhibition that will open this Thursday at the Miramar Palace in San Sebastian says it all: 'Gregorio Ordonez. The Possible Life '. A journey through the political and vital trajectory of the Basque politician. for the life that could be and was not. For the life that ETA did not let him live.

"A tribute to the memory of Gregorio Ordóñez and that of all the victims of ETA", they point out from the Gregorio Ordóñez Foundation.

The exhibition, curated by María Jiménez and with Iñaki Arteta as director of audiovisual production, opens today with an act chaired by the widow of Ordóñez and president of the Foundation, and which will be attended by many authorities and representatives of different political groups. Among others are confirmed the lehendakari, Ilñigo Urkullu, the president of the PP, Pablo Casado, the former president of the PP José María Aznar, the popular, Jaime Mayor Oreja, the president of the Basque PP, Alfonso Alonso and other positions of the party in Euskadi, PSE representatives, such as Eneko Andueza or Rafaela Romero.

Tributes to Gregorio Ordonez will continue on Saturday with a response at the Polloe cemetery in San Sebastian in memory of a murdered councilor.

Subsequently, a delegation will leave from the City Hall through the Calle Mayor and will go down the street on August 31 to La Cepa bar, in which the attack was committed, where the town hall of San Sebastián will discover a plaque in memory of the politician.

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