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July 13, 1997.

Miguel Ángel Blanco

died at the

Hospital Nuestra Señora de Aránzazu

in

San Sebastián

.

ETA 's

Donosti commando

had kidnapped him just 48 hours before and killed him by firing two shots in the back of his head.

On this anniversary, EH Bildu stated in his speech at the Debate on the State of the Nation that "memory, the victims and their pain cannot be a political weapon against the adversary".

The abertzale

formation

, a few days after the

Government

's pacts with this formation undermined the

spirit of Ermua

in the institutional acts in homage to the victims of terrorism, and in full controversy over the pact with the PSOE to carry out the

Law of Memory Democratic

-something that bothers sectors of socialism- has opted to show a sincere commitment to the recognition and reparation of all, absolutely all the victims.

We don't forget any of them."

The parliamentary spokesperson for EH Bildu,

Mertxe Aizpurua

, has considered that "truth, justice and reparation for all victims is and will be the best guarantee that this will not happen again. That is our commitment and that is why we will continue working" .

The PP spokeswoman, Cuca Gamarra, forced

a minute of silence in

Congress on Tuesday in memory of Miguel Ángel Blanco, the

nationalist deputies

, like the rest of the Chamber, stood up and observed that minute of silence.

With the passage of the legislature, EH Bildu has been adding integers as a priority governance partner for the Government.

Thanks to this training, the Executive has been able to save in extremis such important measures as the validation in

Congress

of the first anti-crisis decree or the aforementioned Democratic Memory Law.

In this sense, Aizpurua wanted to remind Sánchez of the dependence that his Government has on the Basque and Catalan independentists: "Today there is no possible progress Government in this State, without the concurrence of the Basque and Catalan sovereignist and independentist lefts" .

In this regard, in her speech, the Bildu spokesperson recalled and reiterated the statement of October 18 in Aiete that was presented by Arnaldo Otegi, coordinator of EH Bildu, and

Arkaitz Rodríguez,

general secretary of Sortu.

For this reason, they have expressed "our sorrow and pain for the suffering suffered. We feel their pain, and from that sincere feeling we affirm that it should never have occurred, that no one can satisfy that all that happened, nor that it had lasted so long in time".

In this context, they have stated that the past "has no remedy, we know that nothing we say can undo the damage caused, but we are convinced that it is possible to at least alleviate it from the respect, consideration and memory of all the victims. ".

Pedro Sánchez

, in his turn to reply, has not mentioned this matter, but rather has shown the discomfort caused by Bildu's intervention, questioning the

Constitution

and democracy.

Aizpurua has called for the overthrow of the 1978

Regime

- "The Transition model is not an inheritance, it is a mortgage, for the people and for the workers" - and has affirmed that Spain "is not one of the most consolidated democracies in the world ";

"Spain as a State continues to be a democracy of poor quality".

The President of the Government has defended that the Constitution "was not an imposition", but that it was "endorsed by the social will of our country".

For Sánchez, the

Transition

, "with its many lights and its few shadows, we must recognize that it has brought us the best stage in the history of our country."

"Not recognizing this, or saying it to me, general secretary of the

PSOE

, is something I cannot share."

And he has stated: "I am proud of the Spanish Constitution, its eighth title and everything we have achieved since then."

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