Bildu: an infamy arising from a perverse consensus from which only Vox stands out

@ElentirENG ES 5·14·2023 · 17:02 0

The presence of 44 ETA terrorists in the Bildu candidacies in Spain should make us ask ourselves a question: how did we get to this?

Spain: Vox calls for the annulment of Bildu's candidacies with terrorists and its outlawing
The Pedro Sánchez's debt to a party that has 44 terrorists as candidates

The vote that shielded Bildu and his handshake with the PP

This party that has recruited dozens of terrorists has not come out of nowhere. Its mere existence is the last link in a chain that began to be forged several decades ago. But to better understand how the facts are related that have led us here, it is better to travel back in time. Bildu exists because in 2012 all parties in Congress except UPyD refused to call for its illegalization. Also the Popular Party (PP). In fact, that vote took place on February 21, 2012. A month before, the PP shook hands with Bildu. Some may not have seen the video:

The turn of the PP that caused the appearance of Vox

In 2012 I explained here that the leadership of the PP had spared no effort in separating María San Gil, Nerea Alzola, Santi Abascal and other brave men from the Basque PP, a process of defenestration of those who supported a line of firmness against ETA that finally gave rise to the appearance of Vox two years later, a party whose founders, significantly, included Abascal and José Antonio Ortega Lara, victim of the most long of the terrorist band ETA.

Before that, more things happened. In 2007, the PP requested the minutes of the negotiation between the Zapatero government and ETA and asked to revoke the permission granted by Congress to the executive to dialogue with ETA. The PP claimed this, stating the following: "Keeping this agreement alive is to continue giving oxygen to the terrorists. They must be told that they are going to be persecuted with all the weapons of the Rule of Law."

However, after coming to power, the PP forgot that request and did not revoke that permit or publish those minutes. Why didn't he? Was there something to hide? It was not the only step taken by the PP to follow the path marked out by the PSOE:

• In April 2012, the Rajoy government announced that the ETA assassins would not have to ask the victims for forgiveness in order to reinsert themselves. Thanks to this measure, today Bildu can present 44 terrorists without regret in their candidacies.
• In September 2012, the government of Rajoy granted the third degree of prison to the ETA murderer Josu Uribetxebarria Bolinaga, and he did so against the criteria of the forensics and the Prosecutor's Office. It was a performance modeled after the one carried out by the socialist government of Zapatero with another ETA assassin, Iñaki de Juana Chaos, a decision criticized by Rajoy when he was in opposition.
• In addition,the PP government did nothing to prevent pro-ETA electoral brands from running for election, despite the fact that when it was in the opposition had promised to act against Amaiur, Bildu and Sortu if he were to govern. One of many promises that he broke.

Bildu exists because the PP decided to follow in the footsteps of the PSOE

On this path we have seen things that will surprise some, such as the PP trying to manipulate a demonstration of victims of terrorism in 2011 to show a message of support for the Zapatero government, the same government that had started a political and secret negotiation with ETA, lying over and over again to the Spanish to deny it and to deny the true nature of the negotiation itself. A few months later, a few days after winning the elections, the PP promised to be "generous" with Amaiur if it abided by democracy: 12 years later it still does not condemn ETA's terrorism.

If Bilbu and Amaiur continue to exist, it is because the PP followed the PSOE line of tolerating the pro-ETA parties and not lifting a finger against them. But going further back, we must ask ourselves: and how were these parties legalized? It's easy to remember: Bildu was legalized on the 6th of May 2011 by a Constitutional Court controlled by the PSOE, in a highly controversial ruling that was approved by a narrow majority of six votes to five.

Thus, the infamous existence of Bildu is the consequence of another scourge: the lack of judicial independence, a scourge that the PSOE and the PP have fed with their constant distribution of posts in the General Council of the Judiciary and in the Constitutional Court.

Vox's rejection of the politicization of Justice

Vox not only emerged in 2014 as a party willing to defend the policy of firmness against ETA that had been abandoned by the PP. In addition, Vox has been defending the depoliticization of the Judiciary and that its members be elected by judges and magistrates, which is precisely the or what the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) has been demanding, dependent on the Council of Europe, for years. The PSOE and the PP have had decades to do so and they have not wanted to. They have preferred to have the judiciary subjected to political power.

To this day, Vox is the only party with a strong presence in Congress that departs from that perverse consensus created by the PSOE and the PP, and to which the extreme left and political parties adhered. separatists, eager to participate in the indecent distribution of judicial posts between politicians. A cast from which Vox has distanced itself.

So, Vox is the party that has the right to be sincerely outraged by those 44 terrorists in the Bildu candidacies, and this very Saturday it has shown that it is the only party willing to do something about it, with his denunciation of those candidacies to the Central Electoral Board and his request to outlaw Bildu, and this while the PP continues to put on a paripé but without doing anything, after having contributed to the proetarras sneak into the institutions, and even after you have shaken hands with them.