The National Court Prosecutor's Office analyzes a complaint filed by a group of ETA victims, which requests that it investigate whether the 44 ETA terrorists who are on the Bildu lists for the 28-M elections meet the legal requirements or not to be candidates. Seven of them have been convicted of murder.

In the complaint, to which EL ESPAÑOL has been able to access, the Dignity and Justice association (DyJ) requests that the criminal history of those that EH Bildu has included in its electoral lists and who were convicted of belonging to and collaborating with ETA be reviewed.

The victims estimate that the inclusion of the murderers of the terrorist group in the lists of the abertzale formation could have generated one or more criminal offenses. For this reason, they ask the prosecutors of the National Court to check if any of them have a disqualification that is still in force that prevents them from attending the next elections.

“This association is unaware of the settlements carried out with respect to each of the candidates convicted of terrorism who intend to contest the next municipal and regional elections, since it has not been present in the respective proceedings,” the complaint states.

However, “there is the possibility that one of them has it pending compliance and a cause of ineligibility of article 6.2 of the LOREG [Electoral Law] may arise,” the letter indicates.

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

Dignity and Justice warns that the commission of a crime of breach of sentence could occur, in the event that one of the ETA members had a sentence of absolute or special disqualification from employment or public office in force and pending.

For the moment, the Prosecutor's Office has proceeded to register this complaint, say sources from the Public Ministry. After its analysis, “the appropriate decision will be made regarding the opening or not of pre-trial investigation proceedings”. For the moment, the Prosecutor's Office is analyzing what is reported in that complaint, in case it sees evidence of a crime. If an investigation begins, it will be in charge of the chief prosecutor of the National Court, Jesús Alonso.

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Dignity and Justice begs the Public Prosecutor's Office to proceed with “all the steps that are necessary and with the utmost diligence, given that subjects who have been convicted of crimes of terrorism are running in the municipal and regional elections in the Basque Country, and seven of them for terrorist murder, and who are running as candidates in the very municipalities where they committed the murders and where their victims live”.

This reality, which is now more tangible than ever when EH Bildu includes these candidates, causes, in D&J's opinion, great “humiliation and vilification” for those affected by their terrorist activities.

[Bildu has on his 28-M lists 44 convicted for belonging to ETA, 7 of them with murders]

“It is the duty and obligation of the Rule of Law to be especially cautious and scrupulous in complying with the legally demanded requirements to be able to run as candidates in an election, and therefore, to proceed to the investigation of the facts contained in this complaint,” it says. Dignity and Justice, which also asks to cancel and annul their candidacies, if necessary.

This Wednesday, the EH Bildu candidate for the Presidency of Navarra, Laura Aznal, stated that those convicted for their membership of ETA who are part of the coalition's electoral lists “have all their rights intact and their political rights as well.”

Aznal stressed: “We, in his day, presented some lists and these lists went through the Electoral Board, which did not put any trouble.”