PSE-EE Secretary General Enico Andueza said that the government of Pedro Sánchez “should not apologize” for the bombing of Guernica committed by Franco’s regime in 1937, during the civil war.
Andwiza, who is in Guernica on Friday to attend the memorial service and ask for forgiveness offered by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to the victims of the bombing carried out by Nazi aircraft, highlighted through
The leader of the Basque Socialists stressed that it is noticeable today that “the extreme right and the wreckage of the outdated right,” referring to the Vox party and the People’s Party, “are allying in different autonomous communities to fight all the progress achieved in recent decades.”
Without “undermining democratic norms”
Precisely for this reason, he stated that we cannot “undermine the democratic foundations” of society, and “question the credibility and legitimacy” of institutions, “all as a result of the 1978 Constitutional Charter.”
In this way, Eneko Andueza referred to the requests of the PNV and the Lehendakari, Imanol Pradales, also from the state government to ask for amnesty for the bombing of Guernica and what the Franco regime did in Euskadi.