The mayor of Vitoria refuses to dedicate a street to Miguel Ángel Blanco requested by the Foundation and the Basque PP

The mayor of Vitoria Gorka Urtaran (PNV) does not want to dedicate a street to

, the Basque PP councilor from Ermua who was kidnapped and murdered by ETA 25 years ago.

The mayor and his councilors from the capital of Alava do not support an initiative that Carlos Iturgaiz's party will defend tomorrow in the municipal plenary session and that, at the request of the Miguel Ángel Blanco Foundation, recall this victim of ETA to some street or square in the capital of Euskadi.

"It's a scandal," Iturgaiz denounced, highly critical of the "equidistance" of the nationalists between victims of ETA and their murderers.

The Basque Country is already preparing acts of homage to Miguel Ángel Blanco, to all the victims of ETA and to the citizen mobilization after the crime perpetrated on July 13, 1997. As the

of the crime approaches, the Vitoria City Council will debate tomorrow a proposal from the PP for the city to dedicate a street "in order to help remember his figure and help put an end to the ignorance of the youth".

A proposal that, as the spokesperson for the PP Ainhoa ​​Domaica recalls, arose after the call made by the Blanco Foundation for the municipalities to counteract the oblivion that is being installed among the younger generations.

"The Basque Country is the autonomous community in which there are fewer streets and squares dedicated to Michelangelo when it should be just the opposite", warned Domaica that she will be in charge of defending a proposal tomorrow with very little chance of going ahead due to the position criticism of Urtaran and the PNV.

The PP of Vitoria will indeed have the support of the six councilors of the PSOE, Urtaran's government partners who, however, have distanced themselves from the nationalist mayor's refusal.

EH Bildu and Podemos will also have to pronounce themselves in an uncomfortable debate because Arnaldo Otegi's coalition does not condemn the violence, although in its municipal group councilors from Eusko Alkartasuna have.

The PNV is only willing to organize with the Blanco Foundation a "unique and specific commemoration" for this 25th anniversary since the recognition that the "crime marked a before and after in the fight against ETA."

Historical facts that, however, are unknown to young Spaniards.

A report by the Miguel Ángel Blanco Foundation found that

and murdered by the terrorist group and more than 70% of them say they know little or nothing about what it meant.

The Blanco Foundation together with the Ermua City Council and the Royal House finalize an institutional act on July 10 that will be presided over by King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia in Ermua with the presence of the President of the Government.

The PP with its president Alberto Núñez Feijóo also finalizes an act that same weekend in the Biscayan town.

The president of the Basque PP Carlos Iturgaiz has lamented the refusal of the PNV to "pass the buck" and refuse to remember Blanco with a street.

"The PNV has no mercy with the suffering of others," Iturgaiz stressed with the fresh memory of the support given by the nationalists to an initiative by EH Bildu that questions the decision of the National Court to imprison the ETA member Xabier Atristrain.

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