Overview
- The Spanish government’s delegate in the Basque Country, Marisol Garmendia, accused many EH Bildu–run councils of refusing or not requesting the Policía Nacional’s mobile documentation unit.
- VIDOC is a roaming office that issues national ID cards and passports in smaller or remote towns so residents do not need to travel to provincial capitals.
- Official tallies released by the Delegación del Gobierno report 6,881 DNI cards and 2,551 passports issued across the Basque Country where the service was used.
- In Gipuzkoa, the unit began in Zumarraga in November and, after 62 outings to about ten localities, produced 1,714 DNI cards and 650 passports, according to the same data.
- Garmendia called the results very positive where deployed and argued that political refusals limit access for residents, with no response from EH Bildu reported in the coverage.