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The former President of the Government José María Aznar will support Marimar Blanco this Saturday in

Ermua

the act that the PP has been organizing for 24 years to remember the councilor kidnapped and murdered by ETA in 1997, and that this occasion will have special relevance.

Aznar's presence is the latest development in an event that will also include Alberto Núñez Feijóo and the leader of the Basque PP, Carlos Iturgaiz.

The three will intervene before Blanco's sister, who will be in charge of closing, in a gesture with which they intend to counteract the initial decision of the mayor of Ermua,

(PSE-EE), to prevent their participation in the institutional act scheduled on Sunday in the same Biscayan town on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the murder, presided over by the

and Queen and attended by Pedro Sánchez.

sources

explained today that it was the

which has intervened so that Marimar Blanco could finally intervene on Sunday as well, thus remembering her brother and all the victims of ETA in the two events scheduled for this weekend in the location.

The socialist mayor of Ermua asked Marimar Blanco to see his speech before

The former Prime Minister and also a victim of ETA, José María Aznar, will travel to Ermua on Saturday in the first public act with the current leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and will not coincide with Pedro Sánchez in the institutional act organized by the Ermua City Hall on Sunday.

Aznar modified his agenda after the controversy over the initial decision of the mayor, Juan Carlos Abascal, not to include Marimar Blanco among the institutional representatives of the act presided over by Felipe VI.

An initial refusal that Abascal argued before Marimar Blanco as a consequence of the institutional nature of this tribute, which on Sunday will bring together half a thousand attendees under the presidency of the King.

The interventions of Pedro Sánchez, the lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, and the mayor of Ermua himself are also confirmed.

Since 1998, the City Council has carried out a simple act of remembrance for both Miguel Ángel Blanco and the hairdresser

, assassinated on November 6, 1980 by an ETA commando who also shot his friend, the national police officer

.

The Biscayan Consistory, together with the Casa del Rey and Pedro Sánchez's team, have been in charge of organizing this year's institutional act, which will be held in the sports center that bears the name of the mayor assassinated by ETA.

It was the House of the King that informed Blanco's sister that she could speak

The PP revealed today that Mayor Abascal came to ask Marimar Blanco to send him the speech that he is going to deliver before the King and the rest of the authorities.

A gesture that from Feijóo's party was interpreted as an attempt at "prior censorship" with Blanco's sister, president of the

that bears the name of the murdered mayor and also a PP parliamentarian in the

.

Marimar Blanco rejected Abascal's request after having, according to the PP, the support of the Royal House to address all those present.

"No one can question that on Sunday the terrorist attack that took the life of Michelangelo will be remembered and that mobilized, like never before, the entire Spanish society with the emergence of the Spirit of Ermua," Blanco reminded Mayor Abascal in a public letter -forwarded to

and the

that redirected the tension arising from the organization of this act.

An institutional tribute that takes place the same week that Sánchez has closed a new agreement with EH Bildu, this time in the

.

Criticism of the PSOE's alliance with Arnaldo Otegi's party is multiplying.

The leader of EH Bildu, who in 1997 did not want to condemn the kidnapping and murder of Blanco, has avoided appearing in public throughout the week so as not to be questioned about it.

Neither Vox nor groups of victims of terrorism will go to Ermua due to the presence of Pedro Sánchez in protest of his pacts with Bildu.

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