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  • Ten years since the end of ETA The PSOE blesses Bildu after the act of Arnaldo Otegi: it is a party "to solve the problems of the citizens"

The EH Bildu movement with which for the first time in 10 years it recognizes the "pain" of the victims of ETA is marking the tenth anniversary of the announcement of the cessation of activity of the terrorist group. The Government opted for temperance, analyze the approach and the words of the nationalist left, observe the reactions on the political board. Your feedback has arrived more than 24 hours later. The Moncloa decides to be more forceful than the PSOE and qualifies it as "insufficient step" and demands that they should "apologize for the pain" caused.

Of course, the Executive defends the negotiations and agreements with Bildu in Congress. This formation is part of the governance block whose votes the Executive needs to carry out its measures, such as the next Budgets. The Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, included the formation of Arnaldo Otegi in his round of contacts to sound out the support for the Public Accounts.

If the Executive of the PSOE, who met this Monday with the presence of Pedro Sánchez and six ministers, considered "an important step, a turning point" the express mention of Bildu to the victims of ETA, the Government is unmarked and exhibits more forcefulness. Faced with the reflection of the PSOE they oppose that it is an "insufficient step" and that, in fact, the nationalist left must "move from words to deeds", condemning, for example, the

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, acts of homage to ETA when they get out of prison. "They should be condemned because they are acts that revictimize those who suffered terrorism," said Isabel Rodríguez, spokeswoman for the Executive.

The message is the same in the PSOE and in the Government in terms of defending the possibility of negotiating and reaching agreements with Bildu, despite this criticism of taking insufficient steps regarding the condemnation of terrorism. The five deputies of Bildu are decisive so that the Executive can approve the Budgets for 2022. With this formation, the Government has already agreed on Public Accounts or, even, a pact was signed to repeal the labor reform, which later had to be rectified by the PSOE before the anger of the vice president Nadia Calviño.

"We must have absolute respect for all parliamentary representations, because Congress supposes the extension of the representation of the citizens," the Government spokeswoman has defended. "There may be ideological discrepancies but we must respect the will expressed by the Spanish people and that they obtain parliamentary representation." This validation of the pacts with Bildu was already exposed by Patxi López, secretary of democratic memory of the Executive of the PSOE and lehendakari 10 years ago when ETA laid down its arms. Both he and Rodríguez have argued that if before they were required to lay down their arms and speak, the rules of the parliamentary game include all actors.

But the relationship with Bildu is an issue that removes sectors of the PSOE.

Not all the party is comfortable with the photo next to the nationalist left.

The president of Extremadura, Guillermo Fernández Vara, who is also in the Sánchez Executive, is also in favor of the fact that Bildu's statement on the victims of ETA falls short.

"It is more than what he is always saying and less than what we would like to hear, that clearly. More than what he was saying and less than what we would like to hear," he said.

For the Extremaduran president, Otegi's words acknowledging the "pain" of ETA victims "means an evolution in the national world," but "in the rest of the world, it falls very short."

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  • Isabel Rodriguez Garcia

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