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"Do you think it's easy to recover the 'Spirit of Ermua'?" Andoni Ortuzar was asked at the gates of the Miguel Ángel Blanco sports center before the arrival of the King, President Sánchez, Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Lehendakari Urkullu .

"I'm not going to get into that," Andoni Ortuzar replied, uncomfortable but smiling.

Blanco and the "Ermua Spirit" are a whole, although not all the political parties interpreted the social reaction against ETA, its political accomplices and its ideological allies.

The 25th anniversary of the kidnapping and murder of Blanco has summoned all the democratic parties that, after formal greetings, have concealed the deep fracture caused by Sánchez due to his pacts with EH Bildu,

Arnaldo Otegi's coalition has not participated in an institutional act presided over by King Felipe VI.

Almost two hundred people have received him with cries of "Long live the King" but also long live Miguel Ángel Blanco, the Civil Guard and even the Ertzaintza.

Police forces that tried for more than 48 hours between July 10 and July 12, 1997 to free Blanco from the clutches of his captors.

The King has clearly heard the shows of support and the applause while a dantzari dedicated an aurresku of honor to them.

A dantzari dedicates an aurresku in honor of the King and the authorities.Javier MartínARABA PRESS

The arrival of the King just a few seconds after Pedro Sánchez has done so has shortened the conversation between the President of the Government and the President of the PP Alberto Núñez Feijóo.

A cold handshake between the two of just a couple of seconds.

Before Feijóo had been able to chat with Lehendakari Urkullu, the PNV representative with whom he maintains a solid institutional and political relationship and who can become the point of support in changing the distant relations that the nationalists and the PP now maintain.

The nationalists of Ortuzar and Urkullu together with the Basque PSOE have turned to the act with a broad institutional representation with the presence of the two vice-celehendakaris, four councilors, the president of the Basque Parliament and the deputy general of Biscay, among others.

A political alliance in the Basque Country and in Madrid that will be displayed again next Thursday in the approval of the Democratic Memory Law, the gray elephant that has remained during the days prior to this institutional tribute.

And the controversy over this rule agreed by the PSOE with EH Bildu has crept in in the moments prior to the interventions of the mayor of Ermua, Marimar Blanco, the Lehendakari, Sánchez and King Felipe.

"It is disgusting that when 25 years have passed since the murder of Miguel Ángel Blanco, a law can be approved in which history is written by those who toasted with champagne as they killed and murdered Miguel Ángel Blanco," Inés Arrimadas has forcefully denounced.

Neighbors behind a banner in favor of the King and the Crown. Javier Martín ARABA PRESS

Criticism for a new pact between the PSOE and EH Bildu that the former lehendakari and socialist deputy Patxi López considers an attempt to "manipulate" the content of the law to "demonize" this rule and even the PSOE itself.

"The vast majority of those who criticize the Democratic Memory Law should read it because that law has nothing to do with the Victims of Terrorism Law," said López, the only socialist spokesman who has tried to counteract criticism these days. of PP, Ciudadanos and Vox to the norm agreed with Arnaldo Otegi.

The absence of Sánchez's parliamentary associates in Congress, their failure to condemn Blanco's murder and the almost 900 crimes committed by ETA has also been seen at the moment in which the mayor of Ermua, Juan Carlos Abascal, handed over the councilors who were companions of Blanco a small sculpture.

Marimar has also gone up to the rostrum to receive the detail -although it has not been delivered to her at that time- but above all to defend the memory of his brother and of all the victims of terrorism after a bitter controversy with Mayor Abascal.

Both put aside for a few moments Abascal's intention that Marimar not intervene, to make it easier for the act to proceed normally.

Blanco, yes, avoided in his speech to reiterate to Sánchez the request that he had made yesterday Saturday to announce his break with EH Bildu.

Serena, accompanied by her two daughters and her husband, Marimar Blanco recalled the importance of the "political and social unity achieved by the" Spirit of Ermua "to achieve the definitive defeat of ETA.

Blanco, together with the authorities led by King Felipe VI, Núñez Feijóo, companions of the assassinated mayor and the councilors who were Blanco's companions, have each deposited a rose next to the sculpture by Agustín Ibarrola in the Plaza de San Pelayo.

When it was Pedro Sánchez's turn, whistles and shouts were heard against the Prime Minister.

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