During the plenary session in Parliament, at 12:00 on Thursday, a large group of people have gathered in front of the building and have surrounded the building, keeping the distances as the smoke of colours spreads. Others have put the image of King Philip VI on the upside and set the moment with music. The callers have claimed that with this spectacular act the Autonomy Statute of Gernika "has given everything it could contribute". It is precisely 41 years since the adoption of this statute that will come to an end.

The mobilisation has been organised by the movement for one hundred Basque republics and their spokesmen, Unai Apaolaza and Ainhoa Gutiérrez, have appeared before the Basque Parliament. In his opinion, this type of statutes and the Spanish autonomous framework offer nothing but a "darker" future and are a "lock" for sovereignty: "That is why, today and here, what we need is real sovereignty, real sovereignty," they claimed.

Apaolaza explained that only through this sovereignty will it be possible to improve living conditions in the future and that the Basque Republic is the indispensable tool for this: "A republic of its own is the instrument by which crises fall out of our lives", he added.