San Sebastián, May 28 (EFE).- Two of the seven former ETA members convicted of blood crimes that EH Bildu included in its lists have been elected in today’s municipal elections, although they will resign from taking office.
It is about Juan Carlos Arriaga Martínez, from Berrioplano (Navarra), and Begoña Uzkudun Etxenagusia, from Rezil (Gipuzkoa).
Arriaga Martínez was in the number 3 position of the EH Bildu candidacy in Berrioplano, where the sovereignist formation has achieved 3 councilors.
He was sentenced to 29 years in prison for the April 13, 1984 murder of Jesús Alcocer Jiménez, a businessman and retired Army commander who was shot dead in Mercairuña, in Pamplona.
Begoña Uzkudun Etxenagusia, who served an 18-year prison sentence for the murder of former Azkoitia councilor José Larrañaga Arenas, on December 31, 1984, has been elected in the Guipuzcoan municipality of Errezil.
Uzkudun was at number 3 on the EH Bildu list, which has won in Errezil by obtaining 5 councilors.
Uribarri was sentenced to 16 years in prison as an accomplice in the 1997 murder of civil guard José Manuel García Fernández.
Committed not to take possession of their positions
These two candidates, like the other five with blood crimes included in the EH Bildu lists, have promised not to take office “to contribute to coexistence and peace.”
The seven sent a statement on May 16 in which they announced that they were withdrawing their candidacies, after the great controversy that arose from the fact that the group of victims of terrorism Covite denounced that EH Bildu’s candidacies included 44 people convicted of their relationship with eta.