The former judge Manuel Díaz de Rábago, who for 10 years was threatened by ETA, has asked for the vote for EH Bildu for being the left-wing party that "has a real chance of winning" in the municipal and regional elections next Sunday.
EH Bildu has projected a video with the testimony of the former judge, 74, during an electoral event held in Vitoria in which the general coordinator of the coalition, Arnaldo Otegi, participated. In it, Díaz de Rábago explains that for 32 years he was a labor judge in the High Court of Justice of the Basque Country (he presided over the Social Chamber for 13 years), that for a decade he was forced to carry an escort and that even two ETA commandos had his data. "That does not prevent me today, once the terrorist activity has disappeared and ETA has dissolved, to support and vote for EH Bildu" because "I am on the left above all" and it is necessary "to unite the vote and concentrate it in a party with real possibilities of winning," says the former judge, who clarifies that he feels "Spanish, not Basque" even though he has been living in Euskadi for 50 years.
In addition, Díaz de Rábago criticizes "categorically the instrumentalization that has been made by the right and the Spanish ultra-right of the EH Bildu lists", something that he has attributed to a desire to "wear out" both the abertzale coalition and the Government of Pedro Sánchez. He considers that the resignation of the seven candidates who were once convicted of blood crimes "favors the commitment of EH Bildu with a necessary coexistence".
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