Irene Montero, on the ETA members on the 28-M lists: "Maximum respect, Bildu is a democratic party"

The Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, has affirmed that EH Bildu “is a democratic party that chooses its lists” and has shown its “maximum respect” for legality and the Electoral Law after learning that the abertzale formation has on its lists the 28-M to 44 convicted for belonging to and collaborating with ETA, seven of them for direct participation in murders.

The leader of Podemos has indicated this Wednesday that Bildu is a party that adjusts to legality and democracy after having left the polls and that it chooses its lists “by the procedures it deems appropriate.”

“I have nothing to say. With the utmost respect for legality, the Electoral Law and all democratic procedures, each party chooses our candidates”, he stated in the corridors of the Congress of Deputies.

[Bildu presents two ETA members as candidates in the towns where their victims were murdered]

From the other wing of the Government, the PSOE spokesman in Congress, Patxi López, has acknowledged that he does not like “anything” that EH Bildu has 44 people sentenced on its lists for the Basque Country and Navarra for the May 28 elections. in the past for belonging to ETA.

For his part, the ERC parliamentary spokesman, Gabriel Rufián, stressed that Bildu is a nationalist force that “likes more or less” is “important in the Basque Country and does politics” and recalled that ETA “has not existed for more than a decade “.

“And this is not debatable, it is pure information. Instead, fascism continues to exist, we see demonstrations, positions and even attacks with fascism behind it and there continues to be representation of these ideas and people condemned for these ideas.”

“They are not filoeterras, they are ETA members”

From the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo has opined that the governability of Spain cannot rest on a party like Bildu, which has people “convicted of murder” on its lists. As he stressed, this type of agreement between Pedro Sánchez and that formation confirms that “sanchismo” must be “repealed”.

[The woman from Txapote, the murderer of the seafood platter and 5 more: the ETA members that Marlaska has not yet approached]

The PP spokesperson in Congress, Cuca Gamarra, took advantage of the control session this Wednesday to criticize the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, agreeing that a formation that has 44 ETA members on its lists.

“You conceive of democracy as a souk where everything is bought and sold. You buy your partners at any price so that you stay in Moncloa. You even pay Bildu, who is running in the next elections with 44 terrorists on his electoral lists “, the spokesperson for the popular has thrown the head of the Executive in the face. “These are his partners for the next 28-M. This is the poster with which he presents himself!”, he added.

The Vox spokesman in Congress, Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, maintains the same line, who considers that this shows that calling the members of the Abertzale coalition “filoetarras” is “falling short” because they are “etatarras”.

convicted of murder

This Tuesday, the Collective of Victims of Terrorism (Covite) denounced that EH Bildu has presented 44 candidates in the Basque Country and Navarra who were convicted of belonging to and collaborating with ETA.

As reported by EL ESPAÑOL this Wednesday, Bildu presents two ETA members as candidates for the May 28 elections in the same municipalities where their victims were murdered. They are Lander Maruri Basagoiti, who is running as a substitute on the Bildu list for the Ciérvana City Council (Vizcaya) and Juan Ramón Rojo González, who is number 21 on the list for the Irún City Council (Guipúzcoa).

Maruri Basagoiti was sentenced in 2001 to 16 years in prison for his complicity in the murder of the civil guard   Jose Manuel Garcia Fernandez.   The crime was perpetrated in 1997. With him, the ETA member Asier Uribarri Benito, another of the murderers who is on the lists of the Batasuna heir formation, was also sentenced, in his case, by the Vizcaya town of Maruri.

[Javier Lambán: “I'm not a sanchista. ERC and Bildu are undesirable allies, they want to destroy the country”]

As for Rojo González, he murdered two people in separate attacks. in   1991 shot the young Francisco Gil Mendoza in Irún. For that crime he was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 1996.. Five months later, already in 1992, he killed a national police officer in Bilbao, for which he was sentenced to another 27 years in prison. Thirty years later he returns to the city as one of Bildu's candidates.

Both candidates, upon their release from prison, received their particular ongi etorri, the welcoming public tribute that is often shamelessly given to ETA assassins when they return home after serving their sentence.

EH Bildu defends his lists

The EH Bildu candidate for the Presidency of Navarra, Laura Aznal, stated this Wednesday that the people convicted of belonging to ETA who are part of the coalition's electoral lists “have all their rights intact, their political rights as well.”

Asked by the journalists about this issue, Aznal has opined that “all the press today shows extreme nervousness on the part of other political groups” and has indicated that “we are very calm, we have very good expectations for these elections “.

He has stressed that “in his day we presented some lists, these lists went through the Electoral Board that did not put any problem”. “All these people have all their rights intact, their political rights as well,” he stressed.