The second vice-president of the Government of Navarra and minister of Memory and Coexistence, External Action and Basque Language, Ana Ollo, has stated that the regional Executive is reviewing "with the greatest generosity" the proposals submitted by associations of ETA terrorism victims for the new regional victims' law on which the Government of Navarra is currently working.
Ollo, who was speaking in response to a question from UPN in the plenary session of the Parliament of Navarra, has defended that the future norm is "very good for victims because it expands rights and also includes all the development of educational projects, in schools, in colleges to delegitimize violence, and it is a good law because it includes for the first time a consultative participation council in which we are going to listen to victims' associations."
In relation to the demands raised by these groups, the minister has stressed that "it is not easy to resolve" and has reiterated that "they are being studied with the greatest generosity by the Government of Navarra."
For her part, UPN parliamentarian Isabel Olave has detailed that the Navarra Association of ETA Terrorism Victims (ANVITE), the Tomás Caballero Foundation, and Covite have registered contributions to the law.
According to Olave, the proposals from these three entities follow the same line and are grouped into three main blocks. Firstly, they demand a sanctioning regime against behaviors that violate the dignity of victims and the elimination of tributes or acts of exaltation of terrorism with offensive and humiliating expressions. Secondly, they demand to reinforce the specific recognition of ETA terrorism victims, preventing their meaning from being diluted in a general framework of all forms of violence. Thirdly, they propose reinforcing social and economic protection through aid in housing, education, employment, and healthcare, in line with what is already applied, for example, to victims of gender violence.
The UPN representative has indicated that her group supports these contributions and has asked the vice-president to "give an immediate response to victims' associations, to this debt with them and to advance in the law's procedure." Furthermore, she added: "We also ask that this law serve for the ethical and political hygiene of those who hide behind the support for all victims the lack of a condemnation of all victims."
In her turn to reply, Ana Ollo has answered Olave that "those who are in debt" to the victims are UPN, "which approved a law in 2010 that left 90% of the victims of terrorism in Navarra without the possibility of receiving the economic aid provided for in the law".