Minister Ángel Víctor Torres went to Vitoria to pay tribute to the victims of March 3, becoming the first to do so. He further pointed out that the draft state budget for 2024 provides for an allocation of 600,000 euros for the March 3 Foundation.
The mayor of Vitoria-Gasteiz, Maider Etxebarria, has asked the Spanish government to establish the Church of San Francisco de Asís in the Zaramaga district, where police killed five workers and injured a hundred people participating in a workers’ meeting March 3, 1976to the state inventory of places of democratic memory.
Etxebarria conveyed this request to the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, with whom he met this Friday in the capital Alava, during a meeting in which the delegate of the Spanish government in the Basque Autonomous Community also took part. Denis Itxaso. Torres has guaranteed that the executive branch “will study the request” conveyed by the capital of Alava.
For the first time, a minister is participating in a wreath in front of the monolith dedicated to the victims of March 3, and Torres has assured that “it is an honor” to be the prime minister to do so.
In the same way, Torres has pointed out that the state budget project for this year 2024 “already a allocation of 600,000 euros for the March 3 Foundation“.
On the other hand, the minister noted that the final approval from Gernika as a place of remembrance will be “imminent”, after the allegations are accepted.
Source: EITB
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