The traditional Alarde of Hondarribia accuses the City Council of "polarizing attitudes and irritating citizens"

HAOSE, the associationthat promotes the traditional Alarde of Hondarribia, which limits the participation of women, reported on Tuesday that it abandoned the process seeking a negotiated solution in February, so I believe that the City Council has now reported on this with the aim of "polarizing attitudes and irritating citizens".

In fact, the Hondarribia City Council announced on Monday that the representatives of the unparalleled Alarde had suspended the mediation process. The HAOSE association asks "why now and not in February?" eta has framed the City Council's statement as part of a "continuing attempt to delegitimize"those who defend the unparalleled Alarde."

The association defending the traditional Alarde has explained that they withdrew fromthe convention "out of a lack of transparency and disloyalty to the process." They believe that at the two meetings held they found only "empty words and no real will to respect. "They report that they learned" from another channel, at the same time and outside the agreement, that the government team had another deliberative process under way. " 

For HAOSE, "the attempt to destroy certain sensitivities or thoughts is contrary to genuine democratic coexistence." They have defined the group as a "staunch defender of diversity "and have committed themselves to" working for Hondarribia to restore full and real coexistence, avoiding confrontation and defending the will of our followers. "In their words," it is democracy, recognizing and respecting the art of disagreeing. "

Finally, in the words of the collective, "it is possible to live together" and, to this end, they have considered it necessaryto"agree on the discrepancy", that is, to "agree on how to arrange the timetables and routes of the various options that require the use of public space on 8 September. " 

The process of finding a solution began on October 2 with the signing of an agreement between the three parties: the City Council (governed by Abotsanitz and EH Bildu, Jaizkibel (the Alarde company in which men and women parade as soldiers) and HAOSE. The mediation process to facilitate mutual understanding and the search for shared solutions was entrusted to the Foundation Baketik, an organization with experience in social conflicts and a working career in Hondarribia.

In the first phase, four bilateral meetings were held, two between the City Council and Jaizkibel, and two between the City Council and HAOSE, with the same methodology and with the support of the Baketik Foundation, after which HAOSE announced its intention to withdraw from the process.