Madrid (EFE) about. Vox and Ciudadanos have also criticized these lists and Podemos, ERC and EH Bildu itself have claimed their legality.
The Collective of Victims of Terrorism (Covite) denounced this Tuesday that 44 EH Bildu candidates in the Basque Country and Navarra were convicted of belonging to and collaborating with ETA. Seven candidates and alternates sentenced to long prison terms for their involvement in various murders committed between 1978 and 2001.
The PP to Sánchez: “This is his electoral poster”
The PP spokesperson in Congress, Cuca Gamarra, has criticized the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, for the presence of these candidates on the EH Bildu lists in Euskadi and Navarra.
“These are your partners, Mr. Sánchez, this is the electoral poster with which your Socialist Party is presented, these are your partners for next May 28,” Gamarra exclaimed this Wednesday at the government control session, hoisting a cover of press.
The spokesperson for Ciudadanos, Inés Arrimadas, has also reproached Sánchez for the list with which the Abertzale party is presented, accusing him of treating an opposition party like the orange formation “worse” than EH Bildu “which has 44 candidates in the municipal ones convicted of terrorism, with crimes of blood”.
The President of the Government has not responded to these criticisms during the control session.
The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has also criticized Sánchez regarding these lists. In his participation in the IV International Expansion Forum, the popular leader has defended that his commitment to “repeal sanchismo” is, for example, to guarantee that governance does not rest “on a party like Bildu” that has “people of a different kind” on its lists. terrorist group and convicted of murder.
Patxi López: “I don’t like anything”
From the PSOE, its parliamentary spokesman, Patxi López, has rejected the inclusion of these candidates in the lists of the Basque party. “I’m not going to value it, I don’t like it at all”, said the ex-lehendakari when asked about this issue in the halls of Congress during the plenary session.
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has not responded when asked about this matter at the end of the plenary session.
Nor have the socialist ministers Isabel Rodríguez, Pilar Llop, and Pilar Alegría spoken on this issue when asked about it in the halls of Congress.
Irene Montero: “Bildu is a democratic party that chooses its lists”
For her part, the Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, stated that EH Bildu “is a democratic party that chooses its lists” and has shown its “maximum respect” for legality and the Electoral Law. The Podemos minister has stressed that she has nothing to say before a political party that has been democratically elected.
“Bildu is a democratic party that chooses its lists by the procedures it deems appropriate and I have nothing to say. From the utmost respect for legality, the Electoral Law and all democratic procedures, each party chooses our candidates ”, he has influenced in statements in Congress.
For his part, the ERC parliamentary spokesman, Gabriel Rufián, stressed that Bildu is a nationalist force that “likes it more or less” is “important in the Basque Country and does politics” and recalled that ETA “has not existed for more than a decade ”.
EH Bildu defends that its candidates “have all their rights intact”
In Pamplona, the EH Bildu candidate for the Presidency of the Government of Navarra, Laura Aznal, has defended that the members of the nationalist lists “have all their rights intact” and that the lists “have passed through the Electoral Board without any problem”. .
Aznal responded at a press conference to the complaint by the Collective of Victims of Terrorism (Covite) stating that “all the press today shows extreme nervousness in the face of the elections, we are calm.”