· Marisol Garmendia: “We want to celebrate these fifty years by valuing the people who have built this democracy, often anonymously.”

· The delegate of the Government of Spain in the Basque Country invites young people “not to blind you or confuse the messages of hatred, violence, negationism, racist intolerance to the different ones spread through the networks by the powerful who control the algorithms. Know the past, talk to your elders, inform yourselves and have your own opinion, critical, but democratic. And sing, paint murals, film a movie, write… Don’t give democracy or rights for conquered forever”

· The Government delegation recognizes Martín Urieta, Maitane Txarterina and Diego Hermoso de Mendoza for save the life of an injured motorcyclist in Bilbao; the Civil Guard agent, Juan Carlos Sánchez, for helping a victim of male violence in Ermua; and Edwin Geovanny for rescuing a person in a serious fire in a flat in Bilbao

· The General Director of Civil Protection and Emergencies, Virginia Barcones, and the delegate of the Government of Spain in the Basque Country, Marisol Garmendia, have presided over the award of medals to the Merit of Civil Protection 2025

. The delegate of the Government has delivered the ‘Menina Basque Country 2025 Awards’ at the Aquarium of San Sebastián to the College of Psychology of Bizkaia, to the prosecutor Camino Méndez Sánchez and to the City of Lasarte-Oria

· The Government delegate inaugurates the outdoor exhibition on Paseo Fray Francisco de Vitoria: ‘Growing in Fear’ installed in collaboration with the Commission for the Investigation of Mistreatment of Women

· This exhibition is part of the Purple Autumn campaign promoted by the Government Delegation to raise awareness among citizens in the fight against male violence

· The exhibition will remain until November 28 and picks up 30 original drawings created by sons and daughters of victims of gender-based violence, in which the children themselves portray the situations of abuse experienced in their family environment

. The delegate of the Government defends that “the commitment to remembrance requires a firm political commitment that is reflected in the inalienable defense of fundamental rights, justice and reparation for the victims”

· Garmendia says that “since Ermua, we reaffirm that the voice of the victims will continue to be the moral compass of our democracy”

· Garmendia recalls that “freedom – this year we celebrate 50 years of Spain in freedom – is not a gift, but an achievement that is conquered, that is taken care of and that we must defend against the rise of totalitarian populisms that try to undermine the pillars of democracy”