The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, accompanied on the bench by Mari Mar Blanco, senator and sister of the councilor assassinated by ETA Miguel Ángel Blanco, demanded this Wednesday that the president of the government, the socialist Pedro Sánchez, withdraw the reform which could benefit 44 ETA detainees: “You have 5 days,” he declared to the head of the Executive. The Senate has convened a plenary session to vote on this reform for next Monday, October 14, and only the Government, if it withdraws the text, will be able to prevent this controversial law from reaching the BOE.
This morning, Marimar Blanco asked Feijóo to attend the plenary session, further knowing that Feijóo would begin his intervention by demanding that the government stop the Txapote Reformaccording to PP sources. In the presence of Miguel Ángel Blanco’s sister, who entered the room as Sánchez spoke during his appearance on immigration (the Chief Executive ignored her entry to the podium), Feijóo expressly demanded that the socialist president “removes the law which leaves in effect more than 300 years in prison for those convicted of ETA terrorism. “You have five days, until the 14th of this month. If you have a minimum of conscience left, I ask you to take advantage of it and reconsider your decision,” said the opposition leader.
Likewise, Feijóo recognized that today “many Spaniards feel disappointed by this parliamentary group and they are right”, but he refused to compare his error (who voted in favor of the text in Congress and did not did not detect the trap of Sumar amendment) with the government payment to the pro-ETA members of Bildu. “Mr. Sánchez, an error, however unjustifiable, is not the same as the moral turpitude of knowingly promoting this law,” the leader stressed. popular.
Feijóo also recalled that the Sánchez government, through the Ministry of the Interior, had promised victims of terrorism that it would not reduce the sentences of ETA members. And he showed the email that Fernando Grande-Marlaska’s department sent to victims’ associations with this alleged commitment while there is already talk in 2022 of a possible reduction in the sentences of ETA detainees thanks to the transposition of a European directive on the criminal record. exchange law. It is precisely for this reason that, in order not to benefit ETA prisoners, Rajoy’s government inserted a clause here which was removed thanks to Sumar’s amendment.
“Members of the PSOE, if you do not withdraw the law, you can now enjoy this miserable victory, but do not give any more lessons. They stay there forever, to the applause of Otegi, Txapote and the others. “Keep this applause and these six votes,” Feijóo told Sánchez, receiving loud applause from his bench and from María Mar Blanco.
