The president of the PP, Alberto Nuñez Feijóospoke this Monday with the president of the Association of Victims of Terrorism (AVT), Maite Araluceto “personally apologize” for the reform that the government of Pedro Sánchez has introduced in Congress and which could mean a reduction in the sentences of ETA prisoners, according to sources in Genoa.
Likewise, Feijóo shared with Araluce the “rejection of any parliamentary trick this implies lowering the sentences of terrorists,” add the same sources.
Furthermore, PP sources have argued that their party, which has a majority in the Upper House, “will be removed from the agenda” of the plenary session of the Senate this Tuesday the bill which modifies the organic law on the exchange of information on the criminal record and the examination of criminal judicial resolutions in the European Union.
A legal modification which was voted unanimously in Congress a few weeks ago (with the votes of the PP and Vox) and which could benefit 44 ETA membersaccording to the Association of Victims of Terrorism (AVT). However, the PP demands that the government “use its power to withdraw” this bill before it reaches the BOE. “The responsibility remains in your hands to reverse this decision”emphasize the PP to the Sánchez executive, which continues to count among its partners Bildu, heir to the political branch of ETA.
“If the government does not withdraw this text, we will seek any legal or parliamentary alternative that can protect this country from the indecency that would result in reducing the sentences of ETA terrorists through parliamentary tricks. The PSOE is the only party capable of putting an end to this nonsense. Before, since he was going to make this legal change with his partners, and now too,” say PP sources.
Vox: “We accept the error”
For its part, Vox also points the finger at Sánchez’s executive and affirms that “it will only be extremist government decision if he frees the terrorists. Spokesperson for Vox in Congress, Pepa Millanalso apologized this Monday in a statement to the Lower House: “We accept the error.”
“The error has no consequences. Does not change the outcome of the vote. We will vote no in the Senate and it will only be the decision of the extremist government if it releases the terrorists with our absolute opposition,” Millán stressed.
“We understand the anger of the Spanish, but also understand that the attacks come from those who want to destroy Vox,” he added. In addition, Millán demanded that the PP “also assumes the error and commits to not agreeing with the PSOE and even less with Bildu. Neither in Madrid nor in Brussels,” he said.
