The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascalapologized this Thursday to the victims of ETA for the vote in favor of its formation within the Txapote Reform promoted by the government and which makes it possible to reduce the sentences of ETA detainees who have served part of their sentence in a member country of the European Union. “For me it was a real blow,” said the president of the party based on Bambú Street in Madrid.
“Well, the first thing I can tell you is Sorry“, the leader of green training began his speech. Abascal asked for “compression” for the victims of terrorism and recalled that he himself “suffered all the terrorism” with “his whole family”.
“For me, it was a blow», confessed the president of Vox, referring to the moment when he learned that they had voted in favor of the reform of the Organic Law 7/2014 to the Congressional Judiciary Committee, as well as to the House. His modification included controversy Txapote Reform. This measure allowed ETA prisoners who had served part of their sentence in other European Union countries to have their sentence reduced in Spain by the length of their incarceration in those Member States. The amendment, proposed by Sumar, was adopted with the approval of all parliamentary groups, including Vox and PP.
However, the leader of the Bambú party recalled that the standard “was going to be approved by this popular front of putschists and pro-terrorists”. In this way, he defined the agreements that exist between the government of Pedro Sánchez and Bildu.
Abascal admitted in an interview to Radio freedom who feels “a sadness and anxiety comparable to or greater than that of certain citizens”, but who recognized that they will never be greater “than those of the victims of terrorism who have lost their loved ones”. “We experienced it as something dramatic,” he said.
Neither deputies, nor advisors, nor journalists
On the other hand, he stressed that “no MP, no legal advisor knew about it, neither the lawyers nor the parliamentary press with expertise in legal matters knew about it.” He nevertheless inferred that the reform “was a very malicious and very well planned plot.”
Vox’s self-criticism focused on the fact that they should not have supported anything that came from the executive branch. “Our big mistake was to procrastinate and dedicate ourselves to technical details” and to think that everything that “comes from the government, even if it is a transposition of European legislation”, can be “harmless “, he admitted. And he added: “Our problem was not to maintain our position at infinite distance from the government.” Abascal recalled that they had a “very clear” position consisting of “voting against everything the government proposes”. However, he clarified that “there are exceptions”, including “the vote in favor of an ELA law agreed with the associations”. In any case, he warned that the day “when we go to vote is no longer No» there must be “a thousand filters”.
Vox’s intention is not to “support this government in one way or another.” In fact, he showed that “if this government crieslong live Spain!” They would not answer “Long live!” » but “Lying!”
Concerning the error made by his party in the treatment of the amendments in which the Txapote ReformAbascal assured that “responsibility will fall exclusively to the Sánchez government.” He also mentioned the message of Emilio del Valledeputy for Vox and representative on the Justice Commission, who made his position available to the party after the scandal. “We will not accept his resignation as a parliamentarian, because his mistake was obvious,” he maintained. Furthermore, he stressed that “people are not fuses” and that he was not going to “sacrifice” anyone simply “to make himself or his party look better.”
