Overview

• At Pamplona’s Anaitasuna pavilion, Sortu leader Arkaitz Rodríguez urged Pedro Sánchez to recognize Spain’s plurinational character and the right to self‑determination.
• Arnaldo Otegi took part in the rally, which framed the 1975 executions as part of a wider liberation struggle and questioned the narrative of the Transition.
• Parallel tributes in Zarautz and Mondragón drew youth groups, and two masked participants in Mondragón burned Spanish and French flags on stage.
• Victims’ associations Covite and the Fundación Buesa denounced the homages as exaltation of terrorism, and the Basque government rejected the instrumentalization of memory.
• The commemorations followed a summer campaign of banners and symbols, even at the Valle de los Caídos, against a backdrop of past recognition of Txiki and Otaegi as victims despite records of violent crimes.