"Not one step back. With all the desire to beat Sánchez's partners," says Feijóo after the attack with stones and firecrackers in Hernani against Jon Echeverría

The PP candidate for Congress for Gipuzkoa, Jon Echeverría, has had to suspend an electoral event in Hernani (Gipuzkoa) after a group of young people threw firecrackers, eggs and stones at him, according to his party, which has canceled the "electoral tour" planned in this territory.

After this incident, the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has pointed out that those who have tried to "frighten" Jon Echeverría "are ready if they think they scare us." In a publication on X, Feijóo asked himself "but what is this?" and has pointed out that "a few days ago they attacked two kids from NNGG in Barakaldo" and that "today they want to intimidate Jon Echeverría and the rest of the colleagues" of the Basque PP.

"Not one step back. We continue forward, with every desire to beat Sánchez's partners as well. We are going to achieve it and also with a seat in Guipúzcoa," added the candidate for president of the Government for the PP, who this Saturday campaigned in Galicia.

The Basque PP has assured, after what happened in Hernani, that "sufficient democratic conditions do not exist to carry out a campaign" and has indicated that it will only hold events in those places where "security conditions" exist.

Sources from this party have indicated that the events occurred around 11:00 a.m. in the Plaza de los Tilos de Hernani, where the candidate Jon Echeverría had announced that he would begin a route through Gipuzkoa.

However, when the members of his team arrived at the place they were greeted by about 200 young people, some hooded, who shouted at them in Basque like 'Alde hemndik' (get out of here) and threw objects such as firecrackers, stones and eggs at them, so they decided to leave the place without celebrating the event.

Jon Echeverría has denounced what happened in a message on

The PP of the Basque Country has indicated in a statement that, in view of what happened, "sufficient democratic conditions do not exist to be able to carry out a campaign presenting the Popular Party project, both due to the undemocratic actions of those who have come to coerce the candidates and due to the demonstrated impossibility of the Ertzaintza to guarantee the security of campaign activities."

For its part, the Professional Union of the Basque Police (Si.P.E.) has denounced with "absolute forcefulness the very serious episode of violence and political intimidation recorded this morning in Hernani, where a group of 200 people has managed to prevent by force the holding of an informative event of the Popular Party."