The Government assumes the validation of sentences abroad and denies "mistakes" from the PP: "It is unworthy that they use ETA"

The Government rejects that there have been “blunders or errors” by the opposition in the processing of the legal reform that validates sentences for ETA prisoners and attacks the PP for an “unworthy use” of terrorism. The minister spokesperson, Pilar Alegría, has once again defended that it is about “adapting the European directive to our country” which, she recalled, was already approved by the popular ones at the time in Brussels. And in Moncloa they assume the practical consequences that its application may have with the early release of ETA prisoners.

“It is a transposition of European regulations to our country that was already approved by the PP in Europe,” Pilar Alegría defended during the press conference after the Council of Ministers. The spokesperson also stressed that the text that will now see the light of day in parliament “has been debated, processed, voted on in a presentation, in committee and in plenary unanimously.”

Alegría has also highlighted that the reform, which according to victims’ associations could benefit fifty ETA prisoners who served part of their sentence in France, was promoted by the Rajoy Government in the Council of Ministers. “This text is literally the one approved by Rajoy’s Council of Ministers in 2014. The PP cannot say that it did not know what it was voting for,” he pointed out before highlighting that the PP deputy who defended the reform in the plenary session came to talk about being “two years late.”

“ETA ended thirteen years ago, it disappeared, it was a victory for all of Spanish society and democracy. On behalf of the Government and all Spaniards, I demand that the PP stop using in that partisan and obscene way what has caused so much damage to the Spanish people. It’s outrageous. I demand that the PP leave it now,” cried the minister, who has insisted on describing as “unworthy” that “they use terrorism to cover their void of proposals, projects and leadership.”

The minister has also harshly attacked popular leaders such as Isabel Díaz Ayuso or Miguel Tellado. To the Madrid president and the parliamentary spokesperson, who said again this Wednesday that “ETA has more strength than ever,” Pilar Alegría responded that their statements represent an “insult to the victims of terrorism, police, judges and prosecutors.” And he added: “Those words cannot be uttered by someone who did not contribute even the slightest to put an end to ETA.”