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The platform for the demolition of the Monument to the Fallen in Pamplona denounces the position of EH Bila, PSN and Gero Bai
  • The platform has called for a meeting on Thursday in the Plaza de la Ayuntamiento de Pamplona at 6:30 p.m., in order to confirm the position of the three parties with the institution in the exercise in favor of its demolition.
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While on Thursday the political parties of Pamplona will be discussing the Monument to the Fallen in the plenary, the paralegal platform has opened a call for a meeting in front of the town hall at 6.30 p.m. The meeting is organized by EH Bila, PSN and opponents of the agreement launched by Geroa Bai on November 20. In the agreement, they decided, among other things, to transform the Francoist monument, instead of demolishing it, with the aim of solving the space. Faced with this, the platform has made it clear that the demands made during the demonstration on January 18 have not been taken into account, stating that "the mention of the possibility of demolition has been a mere distraction".

The agreement reached by the parties on 20 November, on the other hand, paved the way for the transformation of the building, such as the creation of a group of experts, a project contest and, throughout the practice, ensuring the participation of citizens, among other things, through a participatory process. The platform has not been spared from the debate on this issue. In their opinion, the contest is out of place, since in the 2015-2019 legislature the Plenary held an international contest, without any consequence, considering that a new contest would entail the waste of public money used in the 2015-2019 legislature.

Regarding the infrastructure of the building, the communiqué issued by the platform with the support of the College of Architects of the Southern Basque Country stated that the "architectural value of the building is poor" and questioned the possibility of transforming the building. In addition, they have also expressed their distrust of the participatory process because, for them, it is essential to meet with memory associations to start the participatory process.

In this way, the platform has hit the last Horde, demanding that they slide with the people in front of the rival that the right can create: that the right is now "silent and very satisfied", but that from now on "they will have an easy retreat, and that, if they have the opportunity, this interpretation center will last a quarter of an hour".