The PP remembers Miguel Ángel Blanco in Ermua with a commitment to repeal the Historical Memory Law

Feijóo says that "in these conditions it is neither memory nor democratic" and Aznar that "the indecent footprint of the heirs of terror will be erased"

ERMUA (BIZKAIA), 9 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Popular Party has remembered this Saturday the mayor of the PP Miguel Ángel Blanco, kidnapped and assassinated by ETA in July 1997, in an act in the Biscayan town of Ermua, in which he has expressed his commitment to repeal the Historical Memory Law.

The act, with which the 'Miguel Ángel Blanco Summer School' has been closed, has had the interventions of the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the former president of the Government José María Aznar, the sister of Miguel Ángel Blanco, Mari Mar Blanco, the president of the Basque PP, Carlos Iturgaiz, and the president of New Generations, Beatriz Fanjul.

Among other PP leaders, the general secretary, Cuca Gamarra, the deputy secretary of Institutional Affairs, Esteban González Pons, or the presidents of the PP in the three Basque territories have also attended. The former Minister of the Interior, Juan Ignacio Zoido, as well as the current general coordinator of the PP, Elías Bendodo, have also approached the Biscayan town.

The tribute took place in Plaza San Pelayo de Ermua, where a large photograph of Miguel Ángel Blanco has been placed next to an empty chair, where his sister, former president Aznar and Alberto Núñez Feijóo, have placed a floral offering, to which has been followed by a long applause from the audience.

In addition to remembering the former mayor of the PP in Ermua, the PP leader has expressed his commitment to repeal the "badly named" Democratic Memory law and has assured that he will work "not only to get the votes of the PP and other parliamentary groups , but also the votes of the next PSOE so that together we can restore memory and justice".

Alberto Núñez Feijóo has indicated that "those who strive to be worthy heirs of Miguel Ángel Blanco" defend the rule of law and, therefore, accept "the anomaly that the figureheads of that terrorism sit in the institutions that they wanted to destroy by sowing pain and horror. In any case, he added, they feel "profound repugnance that they are the ones who dictate to the democratic government the terms of democratic memory."

"Under these conditions, it is neither memory nor democratic. It is an episode unworthy of our democracy," stressed the president of the PP.

Along the same lines, José María Aznar has assured that "the indecent footprint of the heirs of terror will be erased" and has stressed that the Popular Party will work to make it happen "sooner rather than later".

The former president of the PP and the Government has highlighted that Miguel Ángel Blanco "is not a past that is closed, but a reference to the future" and has pointed out that "those who justified that crime, announced it, threatened it and those who encouraged to kill are among us". "In a policy that destroys the essential values ​​of democracy, they are allowed to manipulate and rewrite history, offending those who heroically staged it," he stressed.

For this reason, he stressed that "not a single comma that they would have put in a law that speaks of memory would be acceptable and it will not be." "Not one comma of these murderers will never be acceptable in any memory project for the PP", he has expressed in reference to the Democratic Memory Law.

Marimar Blanco has been in charge of closing the act with a speech in which she has alluded to the controversy generated by the decision, later corrected, of not allowing her speech in the institutional tribute that the Ermua City Council will celebrate this Sunday and has denounced that "they have tried to silence" not his voice, but his brother's. In this way, she has warned that she will speak tomorrow "so that no one can falsify what happened" and to "defend the memory" of the victims.

Likewise, he has stressed that "words on certain days are worth little if the next day we continue negotiating with those who refuse to condemn his murder." "It is of little use to attend tributes if we do not take advantage of them to definitively break with those who applauded my brother's murder," he pointed out.

For this reason, he has addressed the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to demand that "tomorrow, here in Ermua, be brave and break with EH Bildu".

During the act, the president of the Basque PP, Carlos Iturgaiz, also spoke, reminding the PSOE that popular and socialists lived "together on death row" against ETA and lamented that they now agree with EH Bildu.

"It is a true immorality and a shame that the President of the Government and the PSOE have Bildu, the party of the heads of ETA, as a traveling companion in the government of this country", he added.

For her part, the president of NNGG, Beatriz Fanjul, has denounced that those who kidnapped and murdered Miguel Ángel Blanco sleep "closer in the Basque Country thanks to the approach of prisoners promoted by the Government."