PSOE ministers raise their tone against the ETA members on the Bildu lists due to fear of damage at the polls
New socialist voices position themselves against the electoral candidacies of EH Bildu that include ETA terrorists. Yesterday it was the PSOE parliamentary spokesman, Patxi López, who made the critical point by stating “I don't like it” -in contrast to the position of the Podemos Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, who expressed her “maximum respect” to the decisions of “a democratic party”-; today the headlines of Defense, Margarita Robles, and Education, Pilar Alegría; and Vice President Nadia Calviño have censored the candidacies with ETA members.
During a pre-electoral visit to Valladolid, Robles told journalists that “everything that harms the victims should be reconsidered” in relation to the inclusion of 44 people convicted of belonging to and collaborating with ETA on the EH Bildu lists for next year's elections. May 28.
Robles has stressed that it is necessary to “have empathy with the victims”, because they have suffered a lot in this country and has stressed that Spanish society cannot forget about them because there is “a duty of gratitude towards them”.. In response to questions from the press, he reiterated: “Everything that causes pain to the victims and, without a doubt, this causes them pain, it would be good to reconsider,” he reiterated when asked.
“If there are actions that harm the victims of terrorism, I think it should be reconsidered,” Robles insisted, although he has indicated that the choice of these people is “legal” and that the public has to “rejoice” because “the who one day held a weapon today are in the institutions”, something that is “good and positive.
For her part, the minister and spokesperson for the PSOE, Pilar Alegría, has assured that her party does not like the Bildu lists in which they have included 44 ex-convicts from ETA. However, he has criticized the partisan use of ETA in the political debate.
“They are lists that we do not like, they unnecessarily and unfairly reopen the pain of the victims,” argues Alegría in a statement provided by the PSOE. However, he warns that “in the use of ETA within the political debate and for partisan purposes” they will not find the PSOE. This has been pointed out, although without expressly citing anyone.
According to Alegría, the terrorist group announced the cessation of its activity 12 years ago. “We achieved this victory from the unity of all the citizens of this country,” he concluded.
Calviño has also spoken in Valencia, where he has participated in a meeting with the business sector of the city together with his vice mayor and socialist candidate for mayor, Sandra Gómez. “We do not want to go back and I am not going to comment on another political party which, of course, is at the opposite of my vision of Spain, of what the Government of Spain defends, of the policy that we have been developing and of our vision of harmony, coexistence and the future”, stated the vice-president.