The presence in the lists of Bildu of 44 convicted of terrorism who have not repudiated their criminal activity is the latest demonstration that the Abertzale left has not only not rejected the violence that its sister organization practiced for almost half a century, but claims that past as an essential nucleus of its present, to the point of increasing for 28-M seven candidates sentenced for blood crimes. Their persistence in this anti-democratic demand constitutes a

This is more than the denaturalization of the social democratic project and with a majority vocation that has been a hallmark of a PSOE that has elevated Bildu to the category of preferred partner in the governance of the country.

The inclusion of the 44 candidates – none repentant, since the dissidents have been removed from the project headed by Sortu – is legal, but it does not comport with the slightest morality. In the five years that have elapsed since the dissolution of ETA, the world that applauded or tolerated terror has been making a handful of gestures facing the gallery that can serve to whiten it. However, the coalition of Otegi – a former militant of ETA-pm – has not moved one iota in

their legitimizing discourse of ETA as part of a "conflict" in which terrorists, whom they call "political prisoners" and treat them as heroes,

they were courageous fighters against the "oppressor state".

The ultimate responsibility for this situation lies with the PSOE of Pedro Sánchez, who, guided by a tacticism without limits in order to stay in La Moncloa, has rushed to politically legitimize Bildu, without demanding the basics: the express condemnation of the 853 murders of ETA – in addition to the innumerable threats and extortions – and the collaboration in the clarification of the more than 300 unsolved crimes.

As Alfonso Guerra argues in the interview we publish today, the PSOE has deviated its trajectory due to its dependence on nationalist and illiberal parties.

, which is the "soft way of calling those who do not respect the rule of law". Bildu is the most obvious and toxic example of that melting pot of minority acronyms whose key objective is precisely to combat the rule of law that governs in Spain.

The Left

Abertzale

It is legal today. And ETA, fortunately - not out of conviction but out of exhaustion - has stopped killing. But the fact that they no longer kill does not mean that the constitutionalist parties should grant them significant political influence, to the point of conditioning issues such as the Law of Memory or the deployment of the Civil Guard. That a party that presents murderers as candidates deserves the endorsement of the same Government that calls the Popular Party anti-system accounts for

the renunciation of Sánchez to the role of the PSOE as a fundamental actor in the constitutional consensus

on which our coexistence is based.