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PP candidate Jon Echeverría was pelted with stones in Hernani
Jon Echeverría was pelted with stones in Hernani, in Spain’s Basque Country, according to the column.
Echeverría is the PP’s candidate for Congress in Gipuzkoa.
The PP is securing its route through the province to protect its candidates.
The column says the incident fits a wider pattern of attacks on politicians from the PP and Vox in the Basque Country.
It accuses Bildu, a Basque nationalist party, of helping create a climate of intimidation, but presents this as the writer’s argument.
The incident matters because the PP says it needs extra security to campaign in the region.
Jon Echeverría, the PP candidate for Congress in Gipuzkoa, was pelted with stones in Hernani, according to El Mundo.
The article says the incident took place as Echeverría was campaigning in the Basque Country.
It says the PP is strengthening security for its campaign route in Gipuzkoa.
The article links the incident to a wider return of intimidation in the region.
- Who
- Jon Echeverría, the PP candidate for Congress in Gipuzkoa.
- What
- He was pelted with stones, according to El Mundo.
- When
- Not stated.
- Where
- Hernani, in the Basque Country.
- Why
- Not stated.
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- Candidate
- Jon Echeverría
- Party
- People's Party (PP)
- Office sought
- Congress, representing Gipuzkoa
- Incident location
- Hernani
- Outlet publication
- El Mundo, 14 November 2026
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