Madrid (EFE).- Dignity and Justice (DyJ) has asked the Prosecutor’s Office to verify if the inclusion in the EH Bildu list of 44 candidates convicted of terrorism, seven of them for murder, complies with the provisions of the Law on Parties Politicians, and if they really have liquidated their disqualification sentences as required by the Electoral Law to attend the elections.
In the opinion of the association 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 a complaint letter, to which EFE has had access, this association of victims of terrorism demands that the Prosecutor’s Office of the National Court proceed “to carry out all the necessary procedures and with the utmost diligence, given that they are attending to the municipal and regional elections in the Basque Country subjects who have been convicted of crimes of terrorism”.
Dignity and Justice also points out that the participation in the elections of the seven ETA members 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 the terrorism.
He thus requests the Prosecutor’s Office led by Jesús Alonso, to carry out all the pertinent inquiries to determine whether or not these 44 convicted of terrorism have served their sentence of absolute or special disqualification for employment or public office imposed by a final sentence.
Determine if the convicted Bildu candidates are “in a cause of ineligibility”
In this way, the letter indicates, it will be possible to determine if these candidates are involved “in cause of ineligibility” of article 6.2 of the Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime (LOREG).
Dignity and Justice specifically requests that it be confirmed whether there has been any “failure on the part of the Administration of Justice in the execution of the sentences imposed on said subjects, as has happened on other occasions” in regard to the fulfillment of the sentences of disqualification.
Remember that this was the case with the candidacy of Bildu leader Arnaldo Otegi when he contested the elections in 2016 after serving a prison sentence for the Bateragune case, the attempt to rebuild the outlawed Batasuna for which he was sentenced to ten years in prison for integration into terrorist organization.
On that occasion, Dignidad y Justicia also denounced his inclusion on electoral lists without having fully served the penalty of disqualification.
Specifically, Bildu presented a list of 47 convicted of said crimes, including Otegi, who attended the then president of the Criminal Chamber of the National Court and who led the different sections that tried them to calculate the liquidation of their respective sentences. .
As a consequence of this liquidation, recalls the letter, the Electoral Board of Guipúzcoa finally agreed to exclude Otegi as a candidate from EH Bildu’s candidacy for the Basque Parliament in 2016.
“Based on these antecedents, this association believes that it is possible that one of these 44 candidates has pending compliance with that sentence of disqualification for employment or public office, which would be cause for ineligibility under article 6.2 LOREG”, or constitutive of a crime of “violation of sentence, provided for and punished in article 468 of the Penal Code.”
The Dignity and Justice entry asks the Prosecutor’s Office to verify if it is legal that there are 44 convicted persons on the Bildu lists, it was first published in EFE Noticias.