The announcement that the seven candidates convicted of blood crimes on behalf of ETA will not be councilors constitutes a huge exercise in cynicism by Bildu, which comes after Covite revealed its willingness to bring unrepentant terrorists to the institutions. The reaction is opportunistic, as it cannot have arisen from a sudden regret over newly submitted lists. But the most serious thing is the protection that Bildu has received once again from the Government, which not even in

These circumstances have called into question the continuity of its pacts with

Arnaldo Otegi

.

In a statement without questions, as when ETA was killing, and surrounded by smiling faces, Otegi yesterday tried to cover the resignation of the seven assassins in an alleged commitment to peace and coexistence. However, as our

Foreground

, there are still 34 convicted terrorists who are still willing to collect their records if elected. They are people who perpetrated attacks without fatalities, who gave information to ETA about targets, who directed its logistical apparatus... The president of Covite,

Consuelo Ordóñez

, explains it bluntly: Bildu's position responds to

A mere electoral calculation, concocted by a formation that continues to praise the terrorist group every day

. Nothing else can be expected: its political heritage is the more than 800 murders of ETA and no other.

With its new maneuver, the formation

Abertzale

He has managed to drag the campaign into a perverse logic, trying to gain a false legitimacy between the left and nationalism by the fact that seven murderers resign from being councilors, when if he has presented them it is precisely because of his criminal past.

The minimum ethics required thus becomes an unbearable display of victimhood.

, with Otegi denouncing being the target of a "far-right campaign". That is why we must remind the Government that the PP has not introduced ETA in the campaign: it has been Bildu, a coalition that has not done something as basic in democracy as repudiating the terrorism it supported.

The exemplary response of the victims has contrasted with the indolence of the Government, which has taken great care not to cast any shadow on its present and future pacts with Bildu. Moreover, everything indicates that the next election will provide the opportunity for socialists and

Abertzales

strengthen their ties, especially in Navarre. For this reason, the President of the Government ignores the request to break his pacts with Bildu, which yesterday reiterated both the leader of the opposition, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and the socialist baron Javier Lambán. The sad reality is that he does not mind depending on the heirs of ETA. If something has become clear in this painful episode is that Sánchez will continue to whitewash Bildu through his agreements, as part of the model of society offered to the Spaniards.