BILBAO, 8 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The City Council of Getxo has condemned this Monday, through a text, “the harassment” suffered last Friday at dawn at parties by Mikel Iturgaiz, son of the president of the Basque PP, Carlos Iturgaiz, with the votes of PNV, PP, PSE and Elkarrekin Podemos, and the abstention of EH Bildu.

The Board of Spokespersons, meeting this morning, has approved a Declaration, with five points, in whose introduction it regrets “the harassment” to which a group of people subjected Mikel Iturgaiz in the festive area of ??the Biscayan municipality, and describes it as “regrettable” this episode “of intolerance and hatred, which cannot and should not be tolerated” in Basque society.

“The threats and insults against a young man, Mikel Iturgaiz, for being the son of a politician, are proof that in the Basque Country there are still embers of hatred against those who think differently,” says the text.

For this reason, in the face of this “unacceptable situation and worthy of the most severe sentences”, PNV, PP, PSE and Elkarrekin Podemos have supported the statement in which they show their “strongest condemnation and rejection of the harassment” of Iturgaiz “by his political ideology and for being the son of the president of the People’s Party of the Basque Country”.

“These are facts that do not represent our society, whose hallmarks are coexistence, tolerance and respect for plurality,” they highlight. In addition, they reaffirm their “commitment to dialogue, respect for those who are different, coexistence, peace and freedom, as supreme values.”

After showing their “closeness and support to the family of Mikel Iturgaiz, a resident of the municipality and to all the people who suffer from ideological harassment”, they are “strongly opposed to the threatening and hateful messages that have proliferated in the festive sphere against the Ertzaintza “.

Lastly, the text approved by the Getxo City Council –which has had the abstention of EH Bildu– calls for “festivals free of all kinds of violence”.