Genoa asks its candidates to minimize the clash with Ayuso over Bildu: "They are legal doubts"
ETA is not still “alive”, as Isabel Díaz Ayuso maintained. Spanish democracy defeated her. Those that “are still alive” are “the political ideas that they defended, that they justified and that were in the environment of ETA”. This is what the PP assures in the argument that it has sent to the candidates this Friday, to which EL MUNDO has accessed.
This is a totally different position from that of Ayuso, who on Thursday said: “Bildu is not the heir to ETA, he is ETA. ETA is alive, it is in power, it lives off our money, it wants to destroy Spain, deprive millions of Spaniards of their rights.”
The question that the PP campaign argument is now asking on account of these statements by the Madrid baroness is “Is ETA still alive?”. And the answer includes a clear sentence: “Spanish democracy defeated ETA and now what is needed is to win” Bildu and defeat the legacy and “ideas” of that political space.
The document establishes responses to the most current issues, such as the electoral lists of Bildu or the possible fraud of voting by mail in Melilla. Of the 10 pages, six refer to the controversy over the inclusion of 44 people with ties to terrorism on the ballots of the abertzale formation. It is the debate that monopolizes the entire electoral campaign.
The president of the Community of Madrid and PP candidate for re-election, Isabel Díaz Ayuso. . Moya EFE
The Madrid leader also assured that she would outlaw Bildu: “I would say that by virtue of the Law of Parties, by article 11, Congress and the Senate can be urged to initiate these procedures in the competent chamber”. It is a position that clashes head-on with the one established the day before by the national leadership of the PP. From Genoa they had assured that “with the current legislation”, the illegalization “does not fit”.
The campaign document marks the answer to the question “differences in the PP?”. It is, he argues, “legal doubts”, more than a political gap between the leader of the opposition and the main candidate of his party in the 28-M. “There may be legal doubts about how to resolve such a complex issue, but I think that no one doubts that the PP wants to put all possible mechanisms at its disposal to prevent a party like Bildu from having those convicted of terrorism on its lists,” he explains. .
“It is shameful that Sánchez, on the contrary, has not done anything to prevent it, not even mobilize the State Attorney's Office. Or ask Bildu to back down. Much less break with Bildu “, adds the document.
The PSOE, in the focus
The argument sent by the national leadership of the popular to the candidates does not quote Ayuso directly and focuses on the socialists: “The PSOE is determined to talk about ETA and divert attention from its pacts with Bildu, we are not going to enter into that game”.
“What the PSOE has to do is break with Bildu and apologize for the infamy that Sánchez poured out on the PP in the Senate,” they add, referring to the phrase that the president pronounced in the debate on Tuesday in the Upper House, when he said that the PP “did the impossible to prevent the success of the efforts of the then socialist government to put an end to ETA”. “It is unworthy”, judges the PP.
“It is clear that he is also determined to rewrite history”. “For the PSOE, ETA is something from the past that practically never existed, they ended the band, Bildu has nothing to do with ETA and what is current is Francoism,” the document added.
In this context, one last question arises.. Has the PP raised its tone? “Each person has their style and the parliamentary debate sometimes lends itself to a thick tone, but if there has been a shameful and insulting statement on this matter, it has been that of a whole Prime Minister accusing the opposition of having opposed the end of ETA. It is false, shameful and unworthy,” insist the popular.