Seven EH Bildu candidates for the elections on May 28th withdrew from the party lists on Tuesday to try to settle the main debate in a campaign that the right-wing tries to focus on ETA terrorism. Last week it was the Collective of Victims of the Basque Country (Covite) that denounced that these seven people had been convicted of blood crimes when they were part of the now-defunct terrorist group, and that another 37 had been convicted for collaborating with it. From Vox to sectors of the PP, such as the Madrid president Isabel Díaz Ayuso, they have questioned the legality of these lists, something that was already settled by the Constitutional Court in 2011. That year the magistrates endorsed the legality of the coalition and took it for granted that all its members rejected violence: “They have repeatedly condemned and condemn the violence of ETA, so there is no reason to suppose that the reception on their lists of “independents” has been carried out with relegation or oblivion of those public positions” he said then.
