This Wednesday’s actions in Congress continue to deepen the internal crisis that the People’s Party is going through. After the vote in favor of reducing the sentences of ETA members who served years in prison in France, the group led by Feijóo tried to divert attention and directly blame Sánchez, but the shooting ended. turned against him. Internal party sources consulted by laSexta confirmed that some voices criticized the use of photos of ETA victims and the “performance” with Marimar Blanco.
The same sources consider that the actions of Miguel Tellado, spokesperson for the Popular Party in Congress, in showing an image with the victims, are exaggerated and harm the formation. “After this mistake, they should have been held accountable, demanded accountability and insisted that their votes changed nothing, that it is the government that wants to reduce prisoners’ sentences. Overactivity was a mistake“, sources told LaSexta.
Michael Tellado showed this Wednesday to the first vice-president of the government, María Jesús Montero, photographs of 12 socialist leaders assassinated by ETA and asked him if he will be able to look his families in the eyes after reaching an agreement with EH Bildu. Saidwho mentioned the reform of the organic law of 2014 on the exchange of information on criminal records, approved unanimously in Congress and which, according to the Association of Victims of Terrorism (AVT), will allow 44 members to ETA to get out of prison early, said that their training already understands what the general coordinator of EH Bildu, Arnaldo Otegi, was referring to when he spoke of exchanging prisoners for budgets.
“She already has six additional votes (those of EH Bildu) for the budgets, I suppose she will be very happy”declared the popular spokesperson, whose remarks were criticized on social networks by relatives of the victims appearing in his photo and by the PES-EE.
In fact, the daughter of the socialist and victim of ETA, María Jauregui, responded to the popular man on his X profile and blamed him respect the memory of your father. “Let’s see if you can look me in the eyes and tell me that you will no longer use Aita’s image as a throwing weapon and to see if once and for all you respect her memory,” he wrote.
Josu Elespe followed the same line, who was also very critical of the popular. The son of Froilán Elespeassassinated by ETA in 2001 in Lasarte-Oria, wrote in X: “Thank God what this man says tells me he is scolding me to an extreme degree, but see how he recovered a photo with the image of my father I would turn my guts around until I vomited“. With this message, his son showed his contempt for Miguel Tellado’s use of his father’s image.
Another image that caused a sensation in the PP bases was the “performance” with Marimar Blanco. The PP senator MarimarWhite She went this Wednesday to the plenary session of Congress, where Sánchez’s appearance had already begun and was greeted with long applause from the popular bench, which caused the plenary session to be interrupted for several minutes.
