EH Bildu has voted in favor of the 'ongi etorri' in at least five Basque municipalities during 2021

• Politics The PSOE votes with Bildu and ERC against prosecuting ETA prisoners by law

• Terrorism ETA prisoners announce the end of public tributes but will continue with "discreet" greetings

• Politics Cs challenges the PSOE to support a law to prosecute the tributes to ETA with blunt fines

Sortu

, the

led by Arnaldo Otegi, demanded this Tuesday "expectations of freedom" for ETA prisoners 24 hours after a statement was made public in which they renounced being received with public tributes when they serve their sentences .

The claim filed by

, Arnaldo Otegi's dolphin, comes just two weeks after EH Bildu voted against the suspension of the

.

For years, but especially throughout 2021, the

coalition

has supported these receptions and only in recent months has it supported them in at least five municipalities and in the parliaments of the Basque Country and Navarre.

The claim of a "reciprocity" for the end of the acts of exaltation was also used by the spokesmen of

, the platform that demands the transfer of all ETA members to the Basque Country and Navarre as a step prior to their release.

The end of the

comes after the nationalist left endorsed these acts in town halls and parliaments because they facilitated the "reintegration" of terrorists.

The secretary general of Sortu, Arkaitz Rodríguez, was in charge on Tuesday of claiming as compensation for the end of the

"expectations of freedom" for all of the almost 200 members of ETA who are serving their sentences in Spanish prisons.

"A comprehensive solution"

Rodríguez, Otegi's right-hand man in the EH Bildu coalition, wanted to underline the "important qualitative exercise of empathy with the victims" carried out by the group of prisoners who followed the gang's guidelines until their disappearance in 2018 and which continues to be articulated as a group. homogeneous.

Rodríguez, like groups close to ETA prisoners such as Sare and

, demands a "comprehensive solution" for ETA members to get out of jail before the periods stipulated in their sentences and, as Arnaldo Otegi acknowledged in Eibar on 18 October, they intend to achieve legal changes to accelerate the freedom of ETA members with sentences of up to 40 years of effective compliance after the modification of the Criminal Code of 2003.

The announcement made by ETA prisoners to convert

NGOs into "discreet and private" receptions responds, according to the Collective of Victims of Terrorism (Covite), to a "strategic calculation."

The group chaired by

has denounced each and every one of the tributes made to members of ETA and launched an observatory to monitor the activities to exalt terrorism.

In addition, the Fernando Buesa Foundation, Gogoan-Memoria Digna and Elkarbizi proposed in September 2020 a statement entitled

,

which included among its requests the suppression of the

.

The five municipalities

The text converted into a political motion has been debated during 2021 in the municipalities of San Sebastián, Vitoria, Pamplona, ​​Zarautz and Urnieta, where it received the support of all the political parties except EH Bildu, which supported the tributes.

Arkaitz Rodríguez, in a debate in the Basque Parliament on November 11, described the

as "acts of reception, celebration and expression of joy at the release of loved ones from prison."

EH Bildu established an argument to defend the

in each of the political debates, ruling out that he organized them directly and alluding to the fact that they were an expression of joy and not an exaltation of violence.

Two arguments rejected by the rest of the parties and by the victims.

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