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The State's demand for responsibility for the March 3 massacre has once again confronted PNV and PSE-EE

PNV and EH Bildu have asked the Spanish Government to acknowledge its direct responsibility for the March 3 massacre and to make an official statement at the highest level with this recognition, a request that the PSE-EE does not share. 

VITORIA, 03/06/2025.- Los máximos dirigentes de los dos partidos que sustentan al Gobierno Vasco, Aitor Esteban (i) del PNV y Eneko Andueza del PSE-EE,  han presentado este martes en Vitoria la proposición de ley de medidas urgentes en materia de vivienda. EFE / L. Rico
Aitor Esteban and Eneko Andueza, in a stock image. Photo: EFE

The umpteenth clash between the PNV and the PSE-EE took place today in the Basque Parliament. This time it was different opinions about the responsibility of the Spanish Government in the March 3 massacre that confronted the two government partners.  In those 1976 events, the National Police shot five workers in Vitoria. 

On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, they have presented to theChamber of Vitoria a non-legislative proposal signed by EH Bildu and Sumarr calling on the Spanish Government to acknowledge its "direct responsibility" for the murder of workers. The initiative also calls for the recognition of the State as responsible for the death of the young man killed by the police in the 1978 Sanfermines in Pamplona.

Jeltzales and socialists have disagreed on the matter and have tabled separate amendments. The PNV agrees to request the State to make the aforementioned declarations and also to make the official declaration at the highest level  . 

The PSE-EE does not agree with this requirement and, in its amendment, does not call the state to account and, for the rest, brings to Parliament the same text as the jeltzales. 

More collisions.

In recent months, the PNV and the PSE-EE have been publicly involved in a number of disputes. One of the first was to set up the refugee centres that the Spanish Government plans to open in the Arana district of Vitoria-Gasteiz: while the Socialists supported the Madrid Executive's plan, the PNV opposed it because it believes that it "clashes with the Basque reception model". 

Both sides also have different positions on the Basque profiles of public administration job offers, which became apparent when jeltzales registered their proposal for the reform of the Public Employment Act.

In recent weeks, the Government partner has confronted requests for the transfer of the management of the Port of Pasaia to the Basque Country and the purchases of the company Ayesa. 

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