Rally in Bilbo for a Basque Republic

The coalition-federation Euskal Herria Bildu* attracted 3,700 people in Bilbo to rally against the Spanish constitution in its 41st birthday. Under the slogan ‘Euskal Errepublika!’ a banner with the same sentend being carried only by woman the demonstration ended with some MPs, all of them women, speaking to the crowd as Mertxe Aizpurua who said:
«We are more and we go hand in hand to defend the right of self-determination, to defend economic and social policies that care for and protect people and to achieve the freedom of all political prisoners and refugees».

* Formed by Eusko Alkastasuna, Alternativba, Sortu and independents.

In the afternoon the new political organization Jarki held its first public initiative with a  demonstration in Durango (Bizkaia), under the slogan Euskal Herri langileak apurketa!. It denounced the "denial and imposition" of the Spanish Constitution. For the independence and socialism of the Basque Country.