Overview

• The party formalized control of 11 Avenue Marceau in a Paris ceremony that featured lehendakari Imanol Pradales and hundreds of attendees.
• Aitor Esteban and Andoni Ortuzar described the return as an act of justice, repair and memory tied to the building’s role in Basque exile.
• The Sánchez government ceded the property following its restitution at the end of 2024, drawing sustained criticism from the Partido Popular and Vox.
• The site was bought in 1936–37 for the Basque government-in-exile, seized by the Gestapo, temporarily recovered in 1944, and ordered to the Franco regime by a French court in 1951.
• The building, formerly home to the Instituto Cervantes’ Octavio Paz library and located opposite the Spanish embassy, now flies the Basque flag as the PNV withholds any announcement on future use.