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They call on the government and EITB to prioritize Euskera in the streets of Gasteiz
  • Hundreds of citizens have participated in the demonstration called by Guión Aldatu on Saturday afternoon. In culture and audiovisual media they have demanded policies and means for the Basque people. Several members of Basque culture and culture have participated in the closing event.
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The demonstration departs from Plaza Foral to finish in the same places. The script Aldatu has been opened by the banner with the motto "Euskara alde", and Euskal Telebista has also been a second in Basque. The newly created platform for the Teatro Vitoria has also carried a banner and distributed leaflets and the organizers of the demonstration have shown their support at the end.

The demonstration was supported by ELA, LAB and Steilas, the Council of Euskalgintza, UEMA, the Euskal Herrian Euskaraz movement, AEK, the Federation of Ikastolas, the Platform by the Public School and Lanartea, the Association of Professionals of the Basque Country. Some of the personalities in the Basque cultural and cultural field have also taken the signs and spoken at the closing ceremony.

For the Basque and Basque

The first to take the floor were Bertsolari Maialen Kortabarria and journalist Estitxu Fernandez, according to the journalist Aitor Biain in Berria. They denounce that in EITB the contents in Spanish, which the Basque country is in the background, have priority and ask the new government that is about to complete a “radical” change. “We recover ambitions and ambitions for the creation of television in Euskera,” the journalist Elixabete Garmendia and you Aritz Ganboa Biba demanded. collaborators of the program after denouncing that the objectives of television in Basque were “blurred”.

Actress Iraia Elias and translator Itziar Diez de Ultzurrun warn that the audiovisual sector is “about to die”. “There are many cultural professionals who want to work more in Basque, but where are the policies, where are the budgets, resources and subsidies?” they ask. From the Association of Professionals of the Basque Country Lanartean, the collaborator of ARGIA Miel Anjel Elustondo has asked EITB to cooperate with Basque creators.

Berria’s director, Amagoia Mujika, has invited to strengthen the entire “Basque ecosystem”. He recalled the creation of the Egunkaria and Berria newspapers and stressed the importance of the citizens’ impulse for the Basque Country, but also pointed out that the institutions have a fundamental role: “To promote the centralization of the Basque country in culture and audiovisual media, and that the authorities and political actors develop strong and effective linguistic policies that result in the revitalization of the language”.