He Popular Party of Villava publicly demanded that the controversial the clowns Pirritx, Porrotx and Marimototswhich will occur during the Patronal festivals of the municipality, apologize to the victims of terrorism and remove any political references from your show.
Pirritx, Porrotx and Marimototsknown for making headlines at the local and state levels for singing political children’s songs promote messages related to the nationalist left Already ETA prisoners released. And as he pointed out Villava PP spokesperson, Richard García: “East an offense to Navarrese society in general and for victims of terrorism in particular.
Richard Garcia, PP councilor in Villava, has already requested in a previous plenary session the withdrawal of the show from the holiday programinvoking the clearly political nature of the shows by these clowns, some of whom were former municipal councillors of Euskal Herritarrok. However, the mayor of EH Bildu, Mikel Oteizawith the support of its absolute majority and the support of the rest of the left groups, rejected the proposal.
Faced with the mayor’s refusal, Garcia expressed his displeasure and personally addressed the clowns: “I am addressing Pirritx, Porrotx and Marimotots and I invite you, during your visit to Villava, to recognize your mistake, to apologize to the victims of terrorism and to stick only to a playful and childish approach, without political references or demands of any kind,” said the PP spokesman in Villava.
Garcia stressed the need for the show to be free of any political referencesemphasizing that “childhood should not be indoctrinated nor instrumentalized.” Furthermore, he reiterated that the PP’s position is not to harm the festive program as a whole, which includes traditional, popular, religious and sporting activities that enrich the identity and culture of the people: “There is an attempt to tarnish a program that “we consider popular and inclusive with a clown show that has nothing to do with Villava.”
