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This Monday the new Executive of the PSOE met for the first time. Pedro Sánchez's new decision-making nucleus, an appointment designed to lay the foundations for the work to be carried out but which was pending and attentive to the statement made by the leaders of EH Bildu and Sortu, Arnaldo Otegi and Arkaitz Rodríguez, when the 10th years of the end of ETA. "An important step, a turning point." This is how the PSOE values ​​the fact that the "pain" of the ETA victims has now been recognized.

The statement made by the leaders of Bildu has focused the spotlight, to the point that after the appointment the new spokesperson for the Executive, Felipe Sicilia, along with Patxi López, secretary of democratic memory and lehendakari 10 years ago appeared before the media , when ETA announced the cessation of its terrorist activity. "We value that they recognize that suffering caused, that they commit to mitigate it, because there are wounds that they can help heal so that those wounds do not remain open," López explained. In this work to mitigate injuries, the PSOE aims to put an end to the 'ongi etorri', the festive greetings to the ETA murderers.

The Socialists consider that it is necessary to take into account that in the nationalist left it costs a lot to take steps "they cost a lot."

That is why they consider that the words read by Otegi suppose a kind of "amendment to his role as supporter of what caused the violence," López has considered.

The Socialists have defended their dialogue with EH Bildu since they came to power.

In fact, they are one of the formations that make up the so-called governance bloc on which the Executive relies and in addition to the negotiations for the Budgets, with them they came to seal a document to renew one of the extensions of the state of alarm where they promised to repeal the labor reform.

A controversial text that was modified a few hours later due to the anger of Vice President Nadia Calviño.

The PSOE, in the words of López, defends that democracy "is not a walled city that does not allow anyone to enter. It has doors and windows open so that those who comply with the rules and values ​​of democracy can participate in it. ".

And, in this sense, he has evoked the words said by the former secretary general of the PSOE Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, who as Minister of the Interior in January 2010 sent a message to ETA and its political environment: "Either bombs or votes."

We can ask to recognize "the step" abertzale

The minority member of the Government, United We Can, has applauded Otegi's words and called on the "democrats" to "recognize the step" taken by highlighting the pain of the victims of terrorism in the Basque Country.

"The Abertzale left has taken an unprecedented step," said the Minister of Social Rights and leader of Podemos, Ione Belarra, who considers that Otegi "has put the pain of the victims at the center," which is why the United We can call on the constitutional forces to admit and recognize the new position of the leaders of EH Bildu and Sortu.

"It is justice and democrats to recognize this step," admitted the co-spokesperson of Podemos, Isa Serra, who has called the words of the national leaders "progress" coinciding with the tenth anniversary of the end of ETA's terrorist activity.

"Recognizing it is a matter of justice and a sense of the State," has asked the former vice president of the Government, Pablo Iglesias, today co-president of the purple think tank, the 25-M Institute, in a line similar to that pronounced since the formation.

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