PP and Vox censor the photo of the "indignity" of Sánchez and Bildu: "It is a black day for democracy"

The photo of Pedro Sánchez with EH Bildu has provoked an energetic response from the right. PP and Vox have harshly censored the meeting, described as “unworthy”, and have criticized the negotiations of the Government in office with the nationalist and independence forces.. “Today is a black day for democracy in Spain,” Cuca Gamarra, spokesperson for the Popular Party in the Congress of Deputies, declared in La Rioja..

Sánchez has normalized the relationship with the radical coalition to the extreme. If in 2019 he avoided the image with EH Bildu, only four years later he has done the opposite. He has portrayed himself with Arnaldo Otegi's party and has placed them in a preferential place for everything that is to come. In fact, with no date yet for the investiture attempt, it is one of the few supports guaranteed to continue in the Moncloa..

The main leaders of the PP have come out in a rush to criticize the meeting. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who speaks of a “pact of shame”, has reiterated that EH Bildu cannot be another ally in any scenario until it helps to clarify ETA's crimes.. “Pedro Sánchez's pact with Bildu is the pact of shame. No president should speak to those who refuse to collaborate to clarify the crimes of terrorism. As I said at the investiture, there is nothing to agree with Bildu,” he published on his X profile, formerly Twitter.

Pedro Sánchez's pact with Bildu is the pact of shame.

No president should speak to those who refuse to collaborate to clarify the crimes of terrorism.

As I said at the investiture, with Bildu there is nothing to agree on. pic.twitter.com/eMDoO0tIaR

— Alberto Núñez Feijóo (@NunezFeijoo) October 13, 2023

Gamarra, who appeared during a press conference in La Rioja, has also been very harsh with the allies of the PSOE. “It is the photo of indignity and the lowest one can fall in politics.”. Today he has shown that, between indignity and decency, he chooses the former,” he stressed.. However, it has not been the only. The general coordinator of the party, Elías Bendodo, has done the same along the same lines. “In case anyone had any doubts, this is how shame is sealed. I am sure that many socialists did not expect this when they voted on June 23,” he said in X.

The response has also come from the leadership of Vox. Santiago Abascal has been as belligerent as the popular ones and has recalled the conviction for glorifying terrorism of Mertxe Aizpurua, one of the interlocutors of the radical nationalist formation with the Government in office. “Condemned for advocating terrorism, friend of ETA members and editor of ETA propaganda. Today she is a partner of the autocrat Sánchez. He is guilty, but there are others responsible: those who voted NO to the illegalization of Bildu when VOX proposed it in Congress,” Abascal said from the same social network..

Whitening

The two right-wing parties have placed special emphasis on Sánchez's “whitewashing” of EH Bildu, which in the last municipal elections included among its candidates those convicted of terrorism, seven of them with blood crimes behind them.. “Apart from the infamous betrayal of the victims of ETA…, the corrupt Sánchez buys his chair with the vote of those who have the objective of destroying Spain,” Gamarra added..

In this Friday's meeting, as reported by El Confidencial, Pedro Sánchez and the Secretary of Organization of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán, participated on the socialist side.. Representing EH Bildu were the spokesperson in Congress, Mertxe Aizpurua, and Senator Gorka Elejabarrieta. The radical formation has valued the “exercise of responsibility and respect” that it entails and has paved the way for new support. The fundamental premise is that the result of the general elections in Euskadi involves avoiding a PP and Vox Government at any price, which inevitably implies a long-term alliance with Sánchez. “Bildu does not and will not speculate,” Otegi's men point out in a note published after the meeting.