The leader of EH Bildu

Arnaldo Otegi

endorses the incorporation of

David Pla to the management of Sortu

although he assures that he has not taken part in this decision.

"Peace would not be possible without the help of people like Pla,"

Otegi pointed out, uncomfortable with the fact that the media "highlight certain characteristics of David and not others."

Pla was a member of

Herri Batasuna, was a member of ETA

, acted as an interlocutor with the Government of Rodríguez Zapatero and was

one of the last leaders of the terrorist

group before its dissolution in 2018.

"I want to talk about the future," Otegi responded in an interview on Cadena Ser Euskadi after Pla joined the Sortu executive. The nationalist leader has ruled out that the appointment of Pla and his new political functions are intended

to humiliate the victims of terrorism

. Otegi, who was one of the founders of the Abertzale Left party and its general secretary until 2017, now acts only as the leader of EH Bildu, the coalition led by Sortu and shared with Eusko Alkartasuna (EA) and Alternatiba. Otegi participated as a guest in the congress held in Bilbao on Saturday, January 22, and also established a difference between the leadership in EH Bildu and in Sortu with the reading of the so-called Aiete declaration on October 18, 2021.

EH Bildu will also maintain its 'no' to the labor reform agreed upon by Yolanda Díaz with unions and the CEOE, and Otegi has warned that in order to "remake" Sánchez's 'investiture bloc', the President of the Government will have to

offer "projects concrete"

beyond insisting that the alternative is PP and Vox.

"We have no interest in sabotaging dynamics

, but the government is only supported by the multinational left," warned Otegi.

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