ETA does not end for the PP on May 28. It will continue, at least, until the general elections scheduled for next December. The party led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo has already assumed that EH Bildu cannot be outlawed for including on its lists candidates convicted of belonging to a terrorist group or even for having committed murders in the past. But they have no intention of releasing a prey that, according to their polling gurus, is serving them well in this campaign. And, they believe, it will be better for them for the year-end elections. That is why it will take a vote to Congress to “not agree with Bildu while it maintains people related to ETA on its lists and structures.”
The PP clings to ETA as the myth that the right generates wealth and the left only distributes it falls
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The PP has registered this morning a non-legal proposal in Congress that calls for “immediately and definitively breaking the agreements that it currently maintains.” But not only. Those of Feijóo demand that the Government (although the objective is the PSOE) “not promote pacts, nor establish any type of governance agreements or of any other type, with political parties that have in their structures or that have included in their candidacies for any electoral process, to people who have been convicted of crimes of terrorism, regardless of whether they have served their sentences”.
The PP thus delves into the issue, despite saying that they have not put it at the center of the debate, one day after the harsh face-to-face between Feijóo and the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, in the control session in the Senate . A debate that for the PP was “clarifying” since, according to leadership sources, the president “by omission” said “that he is going to continue agreeing with Bildu and that governance [con la coalición] It is possible in the Basque Country and Navarra”.
The PP gives up all its political options in both regions. The analysis is that there is little to scratch in those communities, but a lot of electoral revenue in other latitudes. In fact, those of Feijóo maintain that the “nationalization” of the campaign is good for them, and bad for the PSOE and its local and regional candidates.
In the PP they are also open to ceding the votes of the PP to the PSOE in Navarra or Euskadi to prevent it from agreeing with Bildu. Of course, Sánchez must sign a global commitment that affects not only those communities, but also Congress. Because the objective is to prevent his re-election.
Feijóo accused Sánchez of “immoral” yesterday. In his environment, this idea abounds. “What happened in the Senate has to be voted on. The president has no limits”, sources from the PP leadership pointed out on Wednesday, lamenting “that a lot of the population, especially the youth under 30, have not lived, do not remember and do not know” what happened with ETA.
In the PP they recognize that the current legislation does not prevent EH Bildu from presenting ex-terrorists on their lists. That is why they propose to modify the electoral law. Not to “outlaw” the Basque coalition, as Vox requests, but to “require a plus of ineligibility from certain people.” In the PP they assume that this approach “touches the Constitution and the right to active and passive suffrage.” And they consider that Vox’s approach to outlawing is “a toast to the sun.”
