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Isabel Díaz Ayuso has lashed out this Saturday against the Government for the end of the policy of dispersion of ETA prisoners. The president of the Community of Madrid took advantage of an act of the PP focused on the relations of Europe and Latin America to accuse Pedro Sánchez of submitting to the wishes of the terrorist environment to maintain his parliamentary support.

Ayuso has started his speech presenting Madrid as the refuge of those who seek "freedom", contrasting it with the performance of a "government of liberticides" that relies on votes such as those of EH Bildu. "We live in difficult times, hard times for freedom on both sides of the Atlantic. Here in Spain the Sánchez government and its populist and separatist partners sell the greatest immoralities as if they were advances. They sustained their Government on the people who had committed the most serious crimes; the worst, the one that threatens life, but also against freedom, unity and the coexistence of institutions," he said.

"Sánchez leads a government in coalition with those who carried terror throughout Spain to break it and end democracy," he added, before directly mentioning the end of 30 years of dispersion policy and the growing prison benefits granted to ETA prisoners.

"Now that government has just given the release and privileges to the members of the terrorist group ETA who still have more than 300 crimes to solve and consents to those terrorists being called political prisoners without anything happening, because they sit at the same tables to negotiate."

Ayuso, who in two months faces the revalidation of the regional elections, has regretted that there is a part of the Spaniards "that is not scandalized" by the benefits that, in his opinion, Pedro Sánchez grants to the convicted terrorists. "Sanchez's favors to ETA are immoral," he concluded.

The words of the president of Madrid have come in a joint act with Alberto Núñez Feijóo. Unlike Ayuso, the popular leader has not made any reference to the fact that the day before there had been the last five approaches of prisoners who were not yet in prisons in the Basque Country and Navarra. In the act has been the institutional deputy secretary of the PP, Esteban González Pons, who has not mentioned the matter in his speech.

Yes, the president of the PP of Vizcaya, Raquel González, has done so in an act in Bilbao, and in the same line of Ayuso, with reference to the "moral denigration" that the end of dispersion supposes. "Bringing prisoners closer was the payment to Otegi, releasing them is the payment to the PNV," summarized González, after recalling that the coordinator of EH Bildu, Arnaldo Otegi, "asked Sánchez for the express approach of the prisoners in exchange for their votes to make him president and he gladly accepted trampling on all the victims in particular and all Spaniards in general. "

"That they do not sell us obligatory fulfillments of the penitentiary law when the Prosecutor's Office itself has to appeal more than half of the third degrees granted and stop their feet," he added.

Criticism like this has led this Saturday to the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, to affirm that the PP "practices cynicism and makes an absolutely inadequate and indecent use" of the fight against terrorism. The minister recalled that under the presidency of José María Aznar, with ETA still active, half a thousand prisoners were approached.

From the Basque Government, its spokesman, Bingen Zupiria, has taken some of the credit for the rapprochement and has considered the rapprochements an inevitable episode after the dissolution of the terrorist group. "The fact that the dispersion of Basque prisoners ends and they are brought to prisons around us is a logical consequence of the end of the violence for which the Government and the lehendakari have worked during these years," he said.

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