Calviño joins Robles and calls the presence of ETA members on the Bildu lists "incomprehensible"

The First Vice President of the Government, Nadia Calviño, described this Friday as “incomprehensible” the inclusion of ETA convicts in the electoral lists of EH Bildu and said that “nobody would want to reopen and activate those feelings that, I believe, we oppress the hearts of all Spaniards”.

After participating in an electoral lunch with the mayor of Santiago and candidate for re-election, Xosé Sánchez Bugallo, the first vice president regretted the decision of the Basque party before the media. He does not understand “what leaders of a party may want to harm the victims and go back.”

In this sense, he recalled that the terrorist group “stopped killing 12 years ago”, so it is necessary to leave behind “a very dark period in our history”.. The Dignidad y Justicia (DyJ) association has asked the Prosecutor's Office to verify if the inclusion in the EH Bildu lists of 44 candidates convicted of terrorism, seven of them for murder, complies with the provisions of the Political Parties Law, and if they really have liquidated their disqualification sentences as required by the Electoral Law to attend the elections.

[Robles criticizes the presence of ETA members on the lists of EH Bildu: “It causes pain to the victims and should be reconsidered”]

In the opinion of DyJ, chaired by Daniel Portero, son of the former chief prosecutor in Andalusia Luis Portero, assassinated by ETA, these candidacies may represent “a flagrant breach” of the Law on Political Parties, “by including the political party EH Bildu in their lists to people convicted of terrorism”, which would lead “to their illegalization”.

In this way, it demands that the Prosecutor of the National Court proceed “to carry out all the necessary steps and with the utmost diligence, given that subjects who have been convicted are running in the municipal and regional elections in the Basque Country for crimes of terrorism”.

[ETA victims ask that Justice verify if Bildu presents disqualified candidates]

Dignity and Justice also points out that the participation in the elections of the seven ETA members who were convicted of murder, “in the very municipalities where they committed the murders and where their victims live”, already causes “humiliation and vilification” to the victims of terrorism.

In tune with Robles

The Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, has indicated that although it is “legal” for there to be Bildu candidates convicted of belonging to or collaborating with ETA, she considers it “rejectable” and “unnecessary”.. The minister assures that Spain ” has a debt of gratitude to the victims of terrorism” and considers that Bildu's decision is “ absolutely unnecessary” and that therefore it is imperative to reconsider it.

For Robles it is “ difficult for someone who has caused pain to be able to manage the life of a place”, since many of the ETA members included by Bildu are candidates from the same places where they murdered. ” As a citizen, it causes me enormous pain from understanding the victims. I understand that you are hurt.”

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The socialist president of Aragón, Javier Lambán, demanded yesterday that his party break relations with those of Arnaldo Otegui. “For me, EH Bildu can include whoever he wants on his lists. But the PSOE must break any relationship with a party that includes murderers on its lists,” he posted on Twitter.. The Minister of Defense has not ruled on the matter beyond assuring “that it is very emphatic.”

As Secretary of the Interior during the times “when ETA killed”, Robles assures that “she is glad that Bildu participates in the institutions and that he accepts the rules of the democratic game”, however, he does not tolerate that “pain is caused” unnecessary”. A feeling that he considers he shares with the rest of the Spaniards.