MADRID, June 23 (UPI) -- Bipartisan demands have been made to have Spain's former Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar testify at the inquiry into the March 11 Madrid train bombings.
The government Wednesday began reviewing and voting on the lists of proposed witnesses submitted by national organizations, the EFE news agency reported.
Of three parties to name the rightist leader who was voted out three days after the terror attack, two are considered right-wing, and the other left-wing.
More than 100 names were presented as possible witnesses before the commission. But only three former officials were named by all parties represented in the legislature -- former Aznar Interior Minister Angel Acebes, his successor, Socialist Jose Antonio Alonso and the ex-chief of the National Intelligence Center, Jorge Dezcallar.
On the heels of the bombings, officials of the Aznar administration insisted that Basque terrorists were responsible for the attacks that killed 191 people and injured some 1,500.
In the following weeks, numerous arrests were made of Islamic militants.
The date for the inquiry has not been set.
