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Things, acts, are valued from the perspective of the interest and needs of each one.

The leaders of EH Bildu and Sortu, Arnaldo Otegi and

, made a statement this Monday on the 10th anniversary of the end of ETA in which they now expressed their "pain" for the victims of the terrorist gang.

A pain that, they said, "should never have occurred, no one can satisfy that it had lasted so long in time."

The PNV is Bildu's political rival and valued this statement as "short and insufficient."

For the PSOE, the

left

is a governance partner in Madrid and considered that the words represented an "important step, a turning point."

In the PSOE and in the Government, what Otegi said is valued as a step forward.

This was evidenced by the two parties that support the Executive.

As a notch in the normalization of left -

in institutions, in the game of parliamentarism and democracy.

The socialists endorse and bless the step taken by Bildu: "They have the political representation that the votes give them and with that representation we talk to see if we can solve problems that the citizens have."

That is to say, they are one more party, which now takes another step that was demanded of it and, therefore, there is no impediment for the relationship to be like with any other formation.

"Has the doors open"

This was defined this Monday by

, secretary of Democratic Memory of the Executive of the PSOE and

a decade ago when ETA announced the cessation of its activity: democracy "is not a walled city that does not allow anyone to enter. and open windows so that those who comply with the rules and values ​​of democracy can participate in it. "

Associating with Bildu was a very difficult step in socialism.

Not all training sectors shared the fact of normalizing negotiations with them, taking photos, elevating them to the category of partners.

It raised blisters among many territorial leaders.

But the numbers made Pedro Sánchez prisoner, always needing to add: for his inauguration, for the General State Budgets, for the state of alarm ... And the five parliamentarians of Bildu, like ERC, became key.

From the beginning the Socialist leadership tried to do an exercise in pedagogy.

From the early stages, especially as a result of their first support for the Budgets, the Socialists made an effort to present Bildu as a "democratic party that has all the legitimacy";

that they even had "more sense of responsibility than the PP";

or that their votes were "brave and patriotic."

First meeting of the new executive

Sánchez had the opportunity this Monday morning to analyze Otegi's words and his impact with his Executive, in which six ministers are present, including Félix Bolaños, a strong man of the Executive. The conclusion of what was discussed was conveyed by

, the new spokesperson for this body: Bildu's statement "is a constructive and positive advance." "A good way to left -

to recognize that those years of pain should not occur."

"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 they do not remain open," concluded López, for whom the step taken by Bildu represents a kind of "amendment to his role. as supporter of what caused the violence. "

Is a further step from Bildu necessary in the opinion of the socialists?

Yes, put an end to the

- festive

and welcomes to the terrorists - but for now they are satisfied with this step.

"It is an advance that we have been demanding from the nationalist left for years

,

said the former

.

"There is an explicit recognition of the victims of ETA and they talk about getting involved and continuing to mitigate that pain. This means that progress will continue in this regard," anticipated Patxi López.

'Purple' and independentists

Last weekend, two key socialists in the end of ETA, such as José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and

, anticipated in an interview that Otegi would not take long to verbalize that killing was wrong, as well as being an injustice.

Just a day later, Bildu's leader did.

The allusion to the "pain" of the ETA victims was applauded and supported by other partners such as United We Can or ERC.

For

, "the left -

has taken an unprecedented step" was his assessment, very in tune with the Socialists.

"It is of justice and of democrats to recognize this step."

"An unprecedented step putting the pain of the ETA victims at the center, recognizing that it should never have happened and that peaceful ways are the only possible way," was the analysis of the minister and leader of Podemos, Ione Belarra.

In ERC they also endorsed Bildu, describing his statement as "brave".

"We recognize the historical importance of the announcement made and express our commitment to accompany the peace process in the years to come," said the president of the Catalan Generalitat, Pere Aragonès.

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