The pacts with Bildu undermine the vigor of the 'spirit of Ermua'

• Ermua El Rey, in tribute to Blanco: "We cannot allow generations to ignore what happened; the victims deserve consideration"

• Tribute The 'spirit of Ermua' makes the PNV uncomfortable in a town that cheers the King of Spain

The shadow of Pedro Sánchez's agreements with EH Bildu hung yesterday over the institutional act that honored Miguel Ángel Blanco Garrido.

Sánchez, the only political representative who was booed during the ceremony, was overshadowed by King Felipe VI, ignored by the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and criticized for his "immoralities", in the words of the president of Cs, Inés Arrimadas .

In addition, the Prime Minister saw how

remained undaunted without applauding him when she finished her speech.

No representative of EH Bildu attended the event.

Felipe VI was received and bid farewell "vivas al Rey" by a hundred neighbors and members of the

association .

The institutional leadership of the King and the memory of Miguel Ángel Blanco sweetened the tense political atmosphere in which an event organized by the

took place .

's initial decision

-later rectified- to prevent Marimar Blanco from intervening with the King, Pedro Sánchez and Lehendakari Urkullu multiplied the distrust between the PSOE and the PP.

Miguel Ángel's sister, supported by her husband,

, and her daughters,

and

, wanted to make it very clear to Sánchez that there are "victims and executioners, good and bad" in a context in which the disappearance of ETA and the legalization of Sortu have facilitated the

be influential in Basque and Spanish politics without condemning ETA terrorism.

"There is no reason that justifies any favor treatment to those who those days applauded the ordeal to which not only my brother, not only my family, but the vast majority of Spaniards was subjected," said Marimar Blanco yesterday, who since 1997 has worked in keeping alive the memory of his brother and the political values ​​for which ETA chose him to execute him with two shots to the head.

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Ermua.

The King, in tribute to Blanco: "We cannot allow generations to ignore what happened"

• Drafting: MANUEL MARRACOMadrid

• Drafting: JOSEAN IZARRA Ermua

The King, in tribute to Blanco: "We cannot allow generations to ignore what happened"

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The 'spirit of Ermua' makes the PNV uncomfortable in a town that cheers the King of Spain

• Drafting: JOSEAN IZARRA Ermua

The 'spirit of Ermua' makes the PNV uncomfortable in a town that cheers the King of Spain

Blanco once again demanded Sánchez, in the vicinity of the Ermua sports center, where the event was held, that he should announce the breaking of his pacts with EH Bildu on such a special day and in a place of enormous political significance.

A claim that he later avoided in his emotional speech in which he kept in mind from his first lines the role played by Felipe VI since those days of July 1997, in which both shook hands for the first time enveloped by the sadness of the murder of Miguel Angel.

Felipe VI greets Marimar Blanco.

In the image below, on July 14, 1997, the day after the councilman's death.

In the one above, yesterday at the ceremony for the 25th anniversary.Patxi CorralARABA PRESS and EFE

or

have also done in recent weeks

-who did not attend the institutional act-, believes that Sánchez's pacts with EH Bildu distance him from "justice and truth".

Accusations that are directly aimed at the agreement reached between the PSOE and Arnaldo Otegi's

coalition that will facilitate the approval of the

on Thursday .

A rule that will further deepen the chasm between PSOE and PP, the two parties that - with their positions and militants in the target of ETA - became the political pillars of the spirit of Ermua.

Sánchez got off the hook saying that Spain and Euskadi "are two free and peaceful countries"

Socialists,

and even the Basque nationalists of Andoni Ortuzar agree that the social reaction precipitated the end of a gang that would still take another 14 years to announce that it would not commit attacks again.

But barely a year after the demonstrations in support of Blanco and condemnation of ETA, the PNV sealed the Estella pact with Herri Batasuna.

Yesterday, in Ermua, Andoni Ortuzar limited himself to making a generic appeal to "unity" without even wanting to comment on the importance of the spirit of Ermua.

"I'm not going to get into that," responded yesterday Ortuzar, president of the party that in June 2002 voted against the

that allowed the outlawing of Herri Batasuna.

Andoni Ortuzar left the tribute ceremony without waiting for the red roses to be placed.

But first, like all those who followed the event, he heard Sánchez's intervention in which he stressed that "Spain and the Basque Country are two free and peaceful countries", an expression that caused astonishment in more than one.

Sortu, the new brand of the Abertzale Left legalized by the Supreme Court in 2012, integrated in Bildu, did not attend the tribute to Blanco because, according to its secretary general,

, it was carried out to "pay homage to the Spanish monarchy and the Spanish Armed Forces.

A criterion imposed by the leadership of the Abertzale Left on the rest of the forces that make up EH Bildu, who have remained silent on Blanco throughout the week.

Complicit silences that the president of the PP, Núñez Feijóo, denounced yesterday in Ermua.

"Apologizing and condemning the hundreds of murders that have occurred is the least that can be asked of a person."

Feijóo and Ortuzar meet for a date after the summer

First meeting

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Alberto Núñez Feijóo had a brief conversation with Andoni Ortuzar yesterday before the institutional act in Ermua.

The leaders of the PP and the PNV agreed to set a political meeting after the summer.

Warm welcome

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The PP leader had the express support of Urkullu and the protocol placed him alongside the

and ahead of the Basque councilors.

President's halo

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Feijóo, who enjoyed an evening with friends in Getxo, was predicted by a senior PNV institutional official that he would be the next Spanish president.

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