María Jauregi, daughter of the former socialist civil governor of Gipuzkoa Juan María Jáuregui, assassinated by ETA in 2000, accused the parliamentary spokesperson of the PP, Miguel Tellado, of using the victims of the terrorist group as a “weapon of jet”. In a message published on social networks, the woman who is also a member of the management of the Basque Institute of Memory (Gogora) asked him to respect the memory of his murdered father, in the middle of the PP offensive for the law which validates sentences already served abroad and which could ultimately benefit certain ETA prisoners convicted of murder.
In a speech to the Congress of Deputies, the parliamentary spokesperson of the PP showed a sheet with the portrait of twelve PSOE politicians assassinated by ETA over the years. Among them was Juan María Jáuregui. “Are you really going to be able to look the families of these socialist officials in the eyes and explain to them that six votes for the budgets are worth it?” Tellado asked María Jesús Montero, Minister of Finance and Vice President of Parliament. Spanish government. “You already have six additional votes for these budgets. I guess she will be very happy. Is it really worth changing six votes in exchange for the dignity of the victims of terrorism in Spain? “Is it worth it for you?”, he added, referring to the six deputies of EH Bildu.
These statements come after it emerged that the PP, along with Vox, had voted in favor of a law commuting sentences already served abroad. Based on an amendment introduced by Sumar, the European regulation is incorporated into Spanish law without the restrictions that existed until now for ETA detainees, so that in time it could benefit those who have already served part of their sentence in another country.
Jauregi, daughter of one of these murdered socialist politicians, responded to Tellado through a message published on the social network [por su padre] as a throwing weapon and to see if once and for all you respect his memory,” he wrote.
In reference to these same statements by Tellado, Eneko Andueza, general secretary of the PES-EE, described him as “very miserable” and spoke of an “embarrassing spectacle” that, according to him, the PP organized to “cover up » [los] errors and internal crisis. He also made reference, through social networks, to another socialist politician who appears in the images, Juan Priede. “He was assassinated by Iñaki Bilbao, member of ETA, after Aznar justified his action (along with 15 other ETA members) in 1997 ‘because of his positive development’, five months after the assassination by Miguel Angel Blanco. In 2000, he was released from prison, also under Aznar’s presidency. Just a year and a half later, he murdered our partner Priede,” he wrote.
