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The demonstration that has crossed the streets of Bilbao this Saturday by the prisoners of ETA seemed the same as the one that the surroundings of the abertzale left celebrates every year in January, but it has not been the same. For the first time in history, the traditional Euskal presoak etxera claim - Basque presses at home - calling for the end of the dispersion has been supported by those who maintain - or sit down - in the Government that will take possession in just a few hours in La Moncloa.

Podemos, which will have four ministers and a vice president in the new Executive that Sanchez will officially present this Sunday, has walked for the rights of ETA prisoners in the hands of EH Bildu, with an Arnaldo Otegi grown for knowing it is essential for the governance of Spain , sharing the requirement to the "new Government", that "no more rights of prisoners are violated and the laws of exception are terminated".

Also in the march were the party that has been a necessary partner for Pedro Sánchez to have been inaugurated president and that will be essential in all the votes. This is ERC, which sent as representatives to the deputy in the Parliament, Núria Picas , and the vice secretary general, Isaac Peraire .

The three - Podemos, EH Bildu and ERC - have shared their support for the prisoners for other years, but this, for the first time, has the capacity to force the president of the Government to change prison policy in the sense they claim. It is not surprising, therefore, that Joseba Azkarraga , president of Sare , the prison support group, organizer of the march, has been "hopeful" that the new government attends to its demands.

"That they take as an example the path already undertaken by the French Government and Justice and that they fulfill the promises they have been making about a profound change in prison policy," he said.

Otegi: "This is also a Basque agenda"

EH Bildu already placed as a condition for his abstention in the investiture the need for progress in changes in prison policy, but in case there was any doubt, Arnaldo Otegi has issued a clear warning to President Sanchez. "This is also a Basque agenda," he said.

"The change in the dispersal prison policy, the demand for the freedom of prisoners, the return of exiles and deportees, is also a Basque agenda." "It is not the agenda of a political party, it is an agenda that defends the majority of this country and has to be fulfilled," he said.

"This is a country that has the right to live in freedom, without political prisoners, without political refugees," said the general coordinator of EH Bildu, who has participated in the demonstration along with other positions of the Abertzale coalition as the deputy in the Congress Mertxe Aizpurua , or the spokeswoman in the Basque Parliament, Maddalen Iriarte .

From Podemos Euskadi , former Senator Josetxo Arrieta justified his attendance at the "human rights" march, because the approach of the prisoners is "very important, but at the same time he asked the prisoners for" recognition of the damage caused to the victims ". Together with Arrieta, the communication secretary, Andeka Larrea , and the congressman, Roberto Uriarte , among others, participated on behalf of Podemos.

The widow of an 'ertzaina'

The mass march, which brought together tens of thousands of people, started after five in the afternoon and ended two hours later before the Bilbao City Council, where Rosa Rodero , widow of an Ertzaina killed by ETA, and Asun Lasa , sister of those killed by the LAGs, they have read a manifesto claiming the end of the dispersal penitentiary policy and where they have also remembered the imprisoned Catalan politicians to whom they have transferred their solidarity.

The Catalan presence has been very important. In addition to the ERC delegation, Eduard Pujol , spokesman for JxCat in the Parliament, and Albert Botran on behalf of the CUP participated.

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