Italians elected representatives engage themselves in the Self-determination Gernika Network

On the 15 of December 2009, in a press conference done in the Council of the Piamonte Region in Turin, Juri Bossuto, regional councillor in Piamonte for the party Rifondazione Comunista and Silvano Raise, local councillor in Montanaro - village in the province of Turin- also from Rifondazione Comunista, engage themselves in the Self-determination Gernika Network.

In this public act, the two elected representatives explained briefly the current situation in the Basque Country. They denounced the lack of basic democratic rights and clear examples of it as the disappearance of the Basque activist Jon Anza and the last police operation against dozens of Basque pro independence youth.

The Italian elected representatives also welcomed the initiative presented by the Abertzale Left in Altsasua(Basque Country) and Venice last 14th of November in order to achieve a democratic solution to the ongoing conflict.

Afterwards, a young Basque student who lives in Turin since two years took the floor in the name of the Basques living in Turin, in order to denounce the last attack against the youth movement and to express their solidarity with the arrested.

Finally, Juri Bossuto and Silvano Raise renew their encouragement for a democratic solution of the conflict in the Basque Country and to overcome the wall of silence imposed by the media about the situation.