Madrid (EFE) to face the payment with their assets, including their public salaries.
The enforcement service of the National Court has requested reports from the Prosecutor’s Office, the State Attorney’s Office and the Ministry of the Interior after receiving the letter in which Dignity and Justice requests to verify if more than twenty candidates “convicted for the crime of terrorism ” and elected in the last elections of May 28, as well as in those of 2019 and 2015, have unsatisfied civil liability, legal sources inform EFE.
If this is the case, the association asks to find out “the assets, vehicles, accounts, deposits, public salaries and any other patrimonial asset with which to face civil liability derived from the terrorist crime committed.”
Sentences for terrorist offenses
Dignity and Justice has identified 21 EH Bildu candidates who have been elected in the last municipal and regional elections in the Basque Country and Navarra and who were previously convicted of terrorist offences.
Among them are Andoni Lariz, Xabier Alegría, Miren Aranzazu Carrera, José Ángel Viguri, Begoña Uzcudun or Juan Carlos Arriaga, convicted of different terrorist crimes for ETA attacks or membership or collaboration with the gang.
As explained by the association, the State “can claim civil liability derived from the crime of terrorism from those convicted of it” that it has previously satisfied and, therefore, requests the National Court to make this verification.
Performance of the association ‘Dignity and Justice’
The association denounces that “there have been many people presented as candidates by the political formation EH Bildu, convicted of terrorist crimes, including murders, havoc, belonging to or collaborating with a terrorist organization.”
He underlines that he has already communicated to the San Sebastián Zone Electoral Board, the Central Electoral Board and the National Court that Sara Majarenas, a former candidate for EH Bildu and convicted of crimes of illicit association, falsification of documents and possession of weapons without a license , had a penalty of disqualification in force.
Circumstance that at first was not noticed by the Prosecutor’s Office and that finally, he highlights, was ratified by the enforcement service and that led to the exclusion of his candidacy.
Weeks before the elections, Dignity and Justice denounced before the State Attorney General’s Office the inclusion of 44 convicted of terrorism on the Bildu lists and another twenty more that this association presented in the 2015, 2016 and 2019 elections, and asked that they be analyzed their sentence settlements.